Actress Liu Tao, an active advocate for climate change awareness, shared her experiences visiting glaciers in the Xizang autonomous region. Liu also read an emotional essay written by a high school ...

Usk Civic Society has long championed the legacy of Wallace, particularly his local connections and his deep affinity with nature, which was nurtured by the Welsh countryside. This year’s event will ...

But Wegener became an ardent champion of the drift theory, proposing it in the first instance in 1912, and developing his ideas in detail in The Origins of Continents and Oceans, published in 1915.

It’s a surprising truth that we know far more about our cosmic neighborhood than we do about the oceans on our own planet. It wasn’t until relatively recently, in the 1950s, t ...

By the 1960s, however, the theory of plate tectonics – the movement of the solid mantle and crust over the Earth's surface – gave credence to Wegener's now widely accepted theories.

Lynn Sykes ’59, SM ’60As an undergrad at MIT in the 1950s, Lynn Sykes ’59, SM ’60, became interested in the theory of continental drift, which held that the world’s great landmasses had ...

In the early 20th century German geophysicist and meteorologist Alfred Wegener proposed the theory of continental drift, suggesting that continents were not fixed on Earth’s surface but had mi ...

It took until the 1960s (long after Wegener's death, in 1930) for the theory of plate tectonics to be universally accepted. Although at first blush, this looks like Wegener's continental drift, it ...

xiv, 675 pages : 27 cm "The author of the theory of continental drift - the direct ancestor of the modern theory of plate tectonics and one of the key scientific concepts of the past century - Wegener ...

What Is Continental Drift Theory? Wegener suggested that mountain ranges with identical rocks could be found on opposite sides of the Atlantic Ocean — indeed, the Appalachians and the mountains of ...