Continental Drift - Lesson 9 - Part 6 of 7

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Part 6 Continental Drift -- Understanding the Earth
Host; Dr. David Pearson.
•Northern hemisphere continents together
•Paleontological
•Edwin H. Colbert his interest in continental drift based on fossils -- Lystrosaurus Zone (Triassic) Fauna from Antarctica
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/161/3840/460

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Today, continental theory is superseded by plate tectonics.
Continental drift treated only the continents as jigsaw puzzle whereas plate tectonics treats the continents, oceans and the earth's crust as pieces of jigsaw puzzle.
These segments are a flashback to part of the development of the current theory

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  • Thanks a lot for posting this! It was nice to see and listen to legendary paleontologist Edwin H. Colbert.

  • reminds me of Ross Geller!!

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