proving wegener. mid ocean ridge the mid-atlantic ridge is part of under-seas mountain range known...
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Proving Wegener
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Mid Ocean Ridge
• The Mid-Atlantic Ridge is part of under-seas Mountain Range known as Mid-Ocean Ridge
• The rocks found on Continents are as old as 3.8 billion years old.
• The oldest rocks in the ocean are only 190 million years old.
• The closer to the Mid-Ocean Ridge the young the rocks became
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Mid Ocean Ridge
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Mid-Ocean Ridge
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Mid-Ocean Ridge
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Sea Floor Spreading
• Harry Hess suggested the Mid-Ocean Ridge was a rift.
• Magma wells up forming new ocean floor pushing the old floor further away
• Hypothesis: If the ocean floor is moving then so must the continents be moving
• Hess found the mechanism Wegener had been looking for.
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Sea-Floor Spreading
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Magnetic Reversal
• Paleomagnetism is when magma cools and hardens into rock and the magnetic orientation becomes permanent.
• Scientist found that the Earth has reversed its magnetic field. North becomes South; and South becomes North
• Scientist discovered that rocks of the same age had the same polarity.
• Scientist discovered a pattern of alternating polarity among rocks called Geomagnetic reversal time scale.
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Magnetic Symmetry
• Discovered on either side of the Mid-Ocean Ridge identical pattern of magnetic reversal.
• Using this data and geomagnetic reversal time scale were able to date the ocean floor.
• Found the age of the sea floor was also symmetrical.
• The further from the Mid-Ocean Ridge on either side the older the rocks became
• This further supported Hess’s Theory of Sea Floor Spreading
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Magnetic Reversal
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Wegener Redeemed
• Scientist found the same magnetic reversal on Land as on the Ocean Floor
• Scientist reasoned that Sea Floor Spreading was the missing mechanism that forced the continents to move.
• Wegener’s idea of Continental Drift becomes the Theory of Plate Tectonics.
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Tectonic Plate Boundaries
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Plate Boundaries
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Divergent Plate Boundaries
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Convergent Plate Boundaries
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Transformed Plate Boundaries