Succession are found in Africa, Falkland Island, Madagascar, Antarctica and Australia. At the base, the system has thick tillite indicating extensive and The Gondawana system of sediments from India is known to have its counterparts in six different landmasses of the Southern Hemisphere. The earliest marine deposits along the coastline of South America and Africa are of the Jurassic age.ĭeposits of glaciers. The belt of ancient rocks of 2,000 million years from Brazil coast matches Rocks of Same Age Across the Oceans were found. The shorelines of Africa and South America facing each other have a remarkable and unmistakable match. Gondwanaland continued to break into various smaller continents that exist today.Ī variety of evidence was offered in support of the continental drift are mentioned below:

Pangaea first broke into two large continental masses as Laurasia and Gondwanaland forming the He argued that, around 200 million years ago, the super continent, Pangaea, began to split. The mega-ocean was called PANTHALASSA, meaning all water. The super continent was named PANGAEA, which meant all earth. This was regarding the distribution of the oceans and the continents.įormed a single continental mass and mega ocean surrounded the same. Meteorologist who put forth a comprehensive argument in the form of “the continental drift theory” in 1912. History of science, it was Abraham Ortelius, a Dutch map maker, who first proposed such a possibility as early as 1596. No wonder, many scientists thought of this similarity and considered the possibility of the two Americas, Europe and Africa, to be once joined together. Of the coastlines on either side of the ocean.

Observing the shape of the coastline of the Atlantic Ocean.

Abraham ortelius theory