Question

evidence of continental drift?​

Answer 1

Answer:

Australia is formed due to continental drift.

Answer 2

Evidence of continental drift

Explanation:

Evidences for Gondwana Land

• Similarities in shape of Coastlines- The Atlantic coasts of South America and Africa have a roughly similar shape.

• Similar Orogenic Belts- If the eastern coast of South America and western coast of Africa are fitted together,the orogenic belts of two continents which have the same range of ages.

• Glossopteris Flora- The remains  of the glossopteris flora occur in rock beds of the Gondwana series in South America,South Africa , India , Australia and Antarctica.Its distribution reached maximum in the Permo-Carboniferous period.

Evidences for Lauresia

• Lauresia was the northern landmass which consisted of North America, Greenland and Eurasia.The geometrical fit of these continents is quite good.

• Geologist have also shown that now widely spread Norwegian, Caledonian , Appalachian and east Greenland mountains were originally formed as a single chain.

• This match suggests that the northern continents were a single unit some time in the interval 260 to 70 million years ago.