Describe the idea of continental drift.
What will be an ideal response?
Continental drift proposed that continental land was not static; the continents moved. The hypothesis was well supported by the jigsaw fit of continental land masses at their margins, and by data in paleo-climatology and paleontology. Although the evidence was quite remarkable, a suitable driving mechanism to produce such crustal movement was lacking.
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A) Mechanical B) Chemical C) Spheroidal D) Differential
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How does the U.S. Geological Survey decide to issue an earthquake warning?
What will be an ideal response?