continental drift
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geology [2]
Plate Tectonics [3]
Asthenosphere [5]
lithosphere [6]
Crust [7]
Tectonics [8]
Mantle [9]
Divergent boundary [10]
Submarine earthquake [11]
Turner Burwick 12/2/2009 Period 7 Vocabulary Continental drift - the lateral movement of continents resulting from the motion of crustal plates. Pangaea - The landmass that existed when all continents were joined, from about 300 to 200 million years ago. Seafloor spreading - a process in which new ocean floor is created as molten material from the earth's mantle rises in margins between plates or ridges and spreads out. Plate tectonics - a theory of global tectonics in which the lithosphere is divided into a number of crustal plates, each of which moves on the plastic asthenosphere more or less independently to collide with, slide under, or move past adjacent plates.