Question

How the fossil evidence helped you put the landmasses together (what was your process)

Answer 1

Explanation:

The idea behind using fossils to correlate two land masses was first put into limelight by a British geologist, Williams Smith.

According to the principle of fossil and fauna succession "fossils and fauna succeed one another in a define order".

This implies organisms evolve in predictable manner.

Since we know that certain types of organisms live within a period in time on the earth surface, we expect that such organisms would be fossilized in the geologic record and preserved.

• Identify the fossil record in one part of the land mass. Log the rock types with the corresponding fossils in them.
• On the other side, repeat the same process.
• Look for unconformity surfaces where some part of the stratigraphic records might have been lost.
• If the fossil records on one side corresponds with that on the other other side, it suggests that the land masses must have once been joined together.
• The logic is that when the organism were on the same land mass, they thrived and lived together.
• They became fossilized together till the lands separated.

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