The isolation of land areas by sea-floor spreading, the uplift of new cordilleras, the emergence of new archipelagos and the disappearance of old ones,
Plate tectonics deals with the motions of the Earth's rocky shell, or lithosphere, which cause the gradual shift of continents and are also
Vertebrate Palaeodistributional Patterns and Continental Drift Author(s): C Barry Cox Source: Journal of Biogeography, Vol 1, No 2 (Jun , 1974), pp
basins and an argument for past land connections Wegener's theory of continental drift was rejected by early-20th-century geologists, and
7 jui 2017 · The breakup of the supercontinent Pangaea over the past ~ 180 million years has left When a landmass breaks up due to continental drift,
1900s continental drift was strongly opposed by (paleo)biogeographic: the widespread distribu- hypothesis that continents had moved in the past
Importance of Theory of Continental Drift to Biogeography present-day environmental conditions and the past history of the planet ”
of vicariance approach as "biogeography made easy " Angiosperm Biogeography and Past Continental "the acceptance of continental drift is not only
1900s continental drift was strongly opposed by many, and In biogeography, distribution patterns are often hypothesis that continents had moved in the past
Keywords: biogeography, fossils, Gondwana, Madagascar, mass extinction, molecular dating, out-of-India, biogeography and past continental movements