01:460:206 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Continental Drift, Arthur Holmes, Pearson Education

• School: Rutgers University
• Department: Geological Sciences
• Course: 01:460:206
• Professor: Jeff Sugarman

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Living with earth: an introduction to environmental geology (hudson) Chapter 3 the dynamic geosphere and plate tectonics: what is the name of the landmass that consists of all of the southern continents, wegener, pangea, scarp, gondwanaland, continental drift. Answer: e: how does continental rifting work, continents move together in a northward direction, continents slide past each other, continents pull apart from each other, continents collide into each other, continents erode. Answer: c: pangea is the name of the giant landmass that is comprised of all of the earth"s continents. Answer: true: geologists immediately accepted the theory of continental drift when it was proposed in the. Answer: false: what is the mechanism proposed by arthur holmes that drives continental drift, convection, tidal forces, erosion, weathering, paleomagnetism. Answer: b: magnetic reversals in the earth"s crust were first discovered, in east africa, in the himalayas, on the ocean floor, in gondwanaland, in pangaea.