Alfred Wegener was one of those people. Though trained as an astronomer, he was a specialist on Greenland. He noticed that, based on nineteenth-century longitude determinations, it appeared that ...

Alfred Wegener was born in Berlin in 1880 ... the idea of "continental displacement" or what later was called continental drift. The year 1912 was busy for Wegener: he got married (to the daughter ...

Wegener was dismissed as a presumptive amateur by most geologists and geophysicists of his time. Of the few who supported the better of his conclusions, several developed powerful evidence for the ...

We know that this is not the case. Wegener suggested that mountains formed when the edge of a drifting continent collided with another, causing it to crumple and fold. For example, the Himalayas ...

Continental Drift In 1912 Alfred Wegener proposed that the continents had originated in the breakup of one supercontinent. His idea has not been widely accepted, hut new evidence suggests that the ...

Alfred Wegener's idea of "continental drift" looked less ludicrous than his contemporaries had thought. There still seemed to be no way that continents could plow through the earth's surface on ...

It confirmed sea-floor spreading as hypothesized by Hess, and thus "continental drift," originally proposed by Alfred Wegener back in 1912. It convinced many that plate tectonics was the best ...

THE wide appeal of Prof. Wegener's theory of the arrangement of ocean and continent is shown by, the issue of a third greatly revised edition and of this excellent English translation. His theory ...

Unfortunately it was not realized at the time that this finding supported Alfred Wegener's theory of continental drift. That ridge, it was later discovered, extended through the major oceans of ...

Alfred Wegener's idea of "continental drift" looked less ludicrous than his contemporaries had thought. There still seemed to be no way that continents could plow through the earth's surface on ...