EESA06H3 Study Guide - Final Guide: Frank Bursley Taylor, Harold Jeffreys, Francis Bacon
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Globalization was emerging during this time so the rst atlas was created in order to nd ef cient trading routes (economics) In 1610, sir francis bacon noticed that the coastline of africa and south america t together but he thought this occurred due to the biblical oods rather than geological science. A paleontologist who noticed that there are same fossils in north america and europe. For many years, many people were xed on the idea of permanentism in which the continents are. Xed in position connected by land bridges which sink to create oceans. He thought that the continents were gathered up on the poles and a large centripetal force pushed the continents away. He realized that the mantle was a little soft so mobilism was possible. He did not have a mechanism to explain why pangea existed. Matching rock types of the same age from the continent to another to reconstruct pangea.
