Scientists also have a pretty good idea how the continents are moving with respect to one another at the present time.
But, with the aid of satellites, it is now possible to measure these movements directly and verify that the continents are actually moving.
He was aware too that the continent itself was moving, and had already traveled many times the breadth of the island, though slowly.
The continents had moved, it was true, and there didn't appear to be a New World at all.
During the Cainozoic the continents moved into their present positions.
Then she saw the continents move away from each other and watched living things crawl up out of Mother Sea.
Ponder had told him the continents were moving again, so he kept a firm grip on his rock just in case.
And, questioned within weeks of the last California earthquake, most respondents knew that the continents move.
The continents also began looking roughly familiar at this time and moved into their current positions.
Geologically, the Cenozoic is the era when the continents moved into their current positions.