GEOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Evidence from fossils, glaciers, and complementary coastlines helps reveal how the plates once fit together. Fossils tell us when and where plants and animals once existed.

Detailed explanation-2: -Geodesy, the science of measuring the Earth’s shape and positions on it, allows the measurement of plate motion directly using GPS, the Global Positioning System. This network of satellites is more stable than the Earth’s surface, so when a whole continent moves somewhere at a few centimeters per year, GPS can tell.

Detailed explanation-3: -The movement of these tectonic plates is likely caused by convection currents in the molten rock in Earth’s mantle below the crust. Earthquakes and volcanoes are the short-term results of this tectonic movement. The long-term result of plate tectonics is the movement of entire continents over millions of years (Fig.

Detailed explanation-4: -Shape of continents. From almost the creation of the first true maps of the Earth, people started seeing how continents would be able to fit together. Location of mountains and fossils. Earthquakes and Volcanoes. Hot Spot Volcanoes. 22-Dec-2016