Discuss the evidence for tectonic movement: OCR A Level Geography

Discuss the evidence for tectonic movement (10 marks)

Tectonic plate movement has been evidenced by Wagener in 1912, Hess in 1948 and then further proved by Holmes. Wagener had climatological, biological and geological evidence for his theory of continental drift. His theory that of Pangea was formulated as he saw a jigsaw pattern and that continents fit together, specifically east of South America and west of Africa. However, this is a weaker argument due to it being purely observations with no scientific evidence. Equally, Wagener did evidence this further in his geological evidence, through sediment found both in North America in the Appalachians and the Caledonia’s in Scotland. The biological evidence he gave was in from the freshwater reptile, the Mesosaurus, which is found in both South America and Africa…