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Continental Drift | the gradual movement of the continents across the earth's surface. |
Pangaea | landmass of all the continents that broke apart 200 million years ago. |
Magnetometer | instrument that is used to measure magnetic forces. |
Paleomagnetism | branch of geophysics concerned with the magnetism in rocks that was induced by the earths magnetic fields. |
Magnetic Reversal | a change in the earth's magnetic fields which is resulting in the magnetic north being aligned with the geographic south. and the magnetic south being aligned with the geographic south. |
isochron | line on a map that connects points relating to the same time zone. |
Seafloor Spreading | the formation of new areas on the ocean floor. which is through magma coming up from mid ocean ridges. |
Theory Of Plate Tectonics | earth divided into small numbers of plates which float on and travel independently over the mantle and much of earth. |
Divergent Boundry | exist between two tectonic plates that are moving away from each other. |
Rift Valley | elongated depression with steep walls formed by downward displacement of earth's surface between fault systems. |
Convergent Boundry | boundary where to plates are moving towards each other. |
Subduction | downward and sideways movement of a plate of the earth's crust. |
Transform Boundry | when two plates slide against each other in a sideways motion. |
Ridge Push | proposed mechanism for plate motion in plate tectonics. |
Slap pull | the portion of motion of a tectonic plate that can be accounted for by its subduction. |