CANADIAN SCIENTIFIC TEAM

GEOLOGIC CORRELATIONS ACROSS THE ATLANTIC

SIMULATION GUIDE

Your team’s leader is Professor Mica, University of Labrador.

You have been looking at rock samples from Labrador in Northern Canada.  These are very old, folded rocks.  The mountain range they were once part of has been eroded down.

Reading about the work of Scottish geologists, you were surprised to find that rocks in the northwest of Scotland are very similar to those in Labrador.  You are wondering if they could be parts of the same range.

Some other matching mountain ranges are shown on the map below.In addition, the distinctive rock strata of the Karroo system of South Africa were identical to those of the Santa Catarina system in Brazil.

It looks as though the continents were once joined.

Continental Drift - Rock Sequences

Continental Drift - Fossils

Continental Drift and Plate Tectonics

(read the sections titled “Orogenic belts,” “Age/Lithological provinces,” and “Stratigraphy/Palaeontology”)