Rather than being separated by expansions of ocean, the continents formed a mass known as Pangea. Dinosaurs lived for about 170 million years, and during that time, the continents gradually spread to form the shapes we recognize today. (Thanks, plate tectonics!) Dinosaurs continued to live on ...
a) Euramerica b) Laurasia c) Pangea d) Gondwana You would expect to find the least number of fossils in rocks from which geologic time? a. Cenozoic b. Mesozoic c. Paleozoic d. Precambrian What is believed to have been the root cause of the Permian-Triassic mass extinction? What other ...
The Continental drift was the process in which the Earth’s land surfaces ( at the time known as the pangea) started slowly breaking apart and drifting away. This has continued until the continents were in the places we know them to be today. This drift has caused the formation of separate...