Lax24 asked:
i am trying to calculate the exact rate which South America is moving at. So i need to know how far it has moved since it was part of the supercontinent Pangea some 200 million years ago. any information is helpful, and if you have it, please provide the website, or source. Thankyou.
i am trying to calculate the exact rate which South America is moving at. So i need to know how far it has moved since it was part of the supercontinent Pangea some 200 million years ago. any information is helpful, and if you have it, please provide the website, or source. Thankyou.
well we know the average rate of travel per year is in the few CM scale
your question is a vague one… when you say SA do you mean the centroid of south america or different exact location in south america.
if you plan to derive rate, from absolute distance, are you really getting the appropriate rate? what if the travel wasnt linear? do you take rotation into consider? around what axis?
you should define what rate you are calculating, frame of refernence, etc etc
but, briefly, there are lots of plate tectonics reconstruction animations/slides on the web for a quick and dirty approximation
Comment by xavier p — June 3, 2009 @ 5:31 pm