Fossil in Focus: Dinosaur Ridge Theropod Track

Join Jennifer on a windy look at a cool theropod track from Dinosaur Ridge, Colorado.

[reegonfall]

Hello there, I have a question you may be able to answer. It is about continental drift. I know a good bit about plate movement but on up to this point nobody has ever answered the question : how do individual land masses break from one place and get to another place quite far away actually on a different plate. A good analogy is India. India started breaking away from Antartica during the early jurassic period and as you probably already know, Antartica has its own plate. A sizeable plate. Yet, India moved upwards moving over a destruction zone causing quite a bit of volcanic activity 65m years ago then collided with Asia creating uplift. How did India get from one plate to the next? Since these are obviously two large plates and are seperate. Does one plate consume another and landmasses are swapped or how does this work? I am trying to grasp with the idea and learn about it. Thank you.

[H.pylori]

Amazing as usual. Question? Did the park staff color the track for emphasis, or is this some type of oxidation? I note that the surrounding rock lacks such coloration. Thanks.