Plate tectonics

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Pangea the supercontinent

Continents were all joined together a long time ago.This continent is called Pangea.

Identical rocks and fossils have been found in West Africa and eastern South America. This suggests that they were once joined together.

Pangea started to split apart about 200 million years ago.


Moving plates

Today=> Earth's lithosphere is split into 15 large and over 20 small tectonic plates. Wheere two plate meet there is a plate boundary.

  • 1. Constructive:  formed


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