Earth History GEOL 2110 The Paleozoic Era Part 5b: Geological History of Gondwanaland and Late Paleozoic Life.
1.The observation that the continents fit together like puzzle pieces, and may once have been connected, led Alfred Wegener to propose a theory in 1910.
Answer these questions… 1.Why doesn’t earth fly off into space? 2.Where is Gondwanaland? 3.How do airplanes stay in the sky? 4.How much do you weigh in.
Endemism – taxa occuring in one geographic place and nowhere else Cosmopolitan – taxa that widely distributed throughout the world Disjunction – closely.
Continental Drift and Plate Tectonics. Alfred Wegener 1880-1930 ●German scientist ●Introduced the Theory of Continental Drift in his book The Origin of.
