Supercontinent

Among some of the earliest of dinosaurs to evolve, Unaysaurus tolentenoi was a prosauropod found in the Caturrita formation in what is now Brazil. In life, it would have reached lengths of up to 2.5 meters (about 8 feet) long, weighed up to 70 kilograms (about 154 pounds) and, reached a height of about 80 centimeters (about 2’ 7”). Its genus name means “black water lizard” while the species name comes from Tolentino Marafiga, who discovered the remains on the side of the road. Being the…

revealed. Brachiosaurs lived in the late Jurassic period, which was about 145 to 156 million years ago. The Jurassic period was warm with tropical breezes which affected the variety of plants. During the late Jurassic period, Pangea broke into two supercontinents, Laurasia and Gondwana. Brachiosaurs lived in present-day North America, although fossils were found in Portugal…

time, written just after the world war its message is highly noticeable and underlies on the social norms in society. The story line runs through a theme of total control by the government. Oceanic, the plot setting represents a supercontinent among other two supercontinents called Eurasia and Eastasia. It is in totalitarian rule state through the Brother and The Party. the law of the…

Jurassic, and the Cretaceous. Each of these periods is divided into many epochs and ages. Earth during the Mesozoic Era was much warmer than today, and the planet had no polar ice caps. During the Triassic Period, Pangaea still formed one massive supercontinent. Without much coastline to moderate the continent's interior temperature, Pangaea experienced major temperature swings. During the Mesozoic, or Middle Life Era, life diversified rapidly and giant reptiles, dinosaurs and other monstrous…

Wegener gave credit to a number of past authors with alike ideas: Franklin Coxworthy (between 1848 and 1890), Roberto Mantovani (between 1889 and 1909), William Henry Pickering and Frank Bursley Taylor . Eduard Suess had stated the theory of a supercontinent Gondwana in 1885 and the Tethys Ocean in 1893. John Perry wrote a paper in 1895 saying that the inside of Earth was fluid, and disagreeing with Lord Kelvin on the age of the earth. After closely observing a globe it shows that the…

What do you get if you cross a pig with a dinosaur? Jurassic Pork! (jokes4us.com) Most people in the world today do not realize how much they impact the ecosystem. Some people do not even have the knowledge about the ecosystem and how it affects the world we live in, and then there are those people that just do not care about the ecosystem. An ecosystem is a community of animals, people, and plants that interact with one another and their physical environment. One type of ecosystem that we take…

tectonics is a scientific theory that describes the large-scale motion of Earth’s Lithosphere. The theory was believed to be developed around 1912 by Alfred Wegener. Wegener introduced the fact that all of today’s continents were once a large supercontinent (Pangea) and how they slowly drifted to their present positions. This idea was developed by simple observations such as the fact that the African and South-American coast lines fit together like pieces of a puzzle and that fossils and…

Sediment-hosted copper deposits are formed by fluid mixing in permeable sedimentary and (more rarely) volcanic rocks. Two fluids are thought to be involved: an oxidized brine carrying copper as a chloride complex, and a reduced fluid that commonly formed in the presence of anaerobic sulfatereducing bacteria. For a sediment-hosted copper deposit to form, four conditions are required: (1) an oxidized source rock, (2) a brine to mobilize copper, (3) a reduced fluid to precipitate copper, and (4)…

Australia was originally in the Antarctic circle as part of Gondwana, a supercontinent that consisted of Australia, Antarctica, Africa, and South America. It was part of the land and then broke off and slowly moved up to where it is now. New Zealand and the other surrounding islands also came from this same land, but, they broke off to form islands of their own. Because of the greenhouse conditions on the planet at the time of Gondwana, the area, despite being in the Antarctic circle, had no…

The plate tectonic theory says that there are plates covering the outer layer of the Earth and that they have been moving around as time goes on. It says that the Earth was once made up of a supercontinent, called Pangea, and as time went on the plates started to shift and eventually became what they are today. Several different scientists over a course of over 20 years have used each other’s work and pushed our scientific knowledge to develop the theory and give us our four different boundaries…