7.9 Making Plate Tectonics Happen (Chapter 7: Plate Tectonics)
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Course
AS Unit F791 - Global Tectonics
Institution
OCR
This document contains detailed notes on Making Plate Tectonics Happen from Chapter 7: Plate Tectonics of the A Level Geology course. It includes all the information required to secure a top grade in this part of the course. These notes took me many hours to complete and are how I revised for my ex...
, Making Plate Tectonics Happen
• When Wegener proposed the theory of continental drift, he didn’t
have a mechanism by which the continents moved, so his theory was
largely ignored because of limited knowledge of the interior of the
Earth and it was difficult to see how the continents could move over
the oceanic crust.
• To explain continental drift, seafloor spreading and plate tectonics,
we need a mechanism by which the lithospheric plates can move.
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