IN recent years the question of continental drift has received renewed attention ... No attempt will be made here to summarize all the supporting evidence—rather the purpose of this ...

Wegener then assembled an impressive amount of continental drift evidence to show that Earth's continents were once connected in a single supercontinent. Wegener knew that fossil plants and ...

Further discussion is not productive unless new evidence emerges, as it did for continental drift. Anthropogenic climate change has the consensus of researchers. Political leaders who deny the ...

"The expanding-Earth theory had the merit of explaining with a fixist model the evidence of ancient continental connections," ...

A month before he publicly presented his theory, in December 1912, he wrote to his mentor and future father-in-law, Wladimir Koppen: If the evidence favored continental drift, he asked, “why should we ...

The evidence for continental drift comes from a variety of sources. One of the most compelling pieces of evidence is the fit between the coastlines of South America and Africa. When these two ...

It was not until the 1960s that evidence of convection currents within the mantle was discovered to support the theory fully. This slideshow explains Wegener’s theory. What was the evidence for ...

But it was the Americans who came down hardest against continental drift. A paleontologist called it “Germanic pseudo­-science” and accused Wegener of toying with the evidence to spin himself ...

and other supporting data and evidence. Not all the early reactions to continental drift were harsh, though. In the bizarre intellectual atmosphere of the Third Reich, Wegener’s theory had ...

It emphasizes the evidence supporting plate tectonics ... Keywords plate tectonics, continental drift, geological change, earthquakes, volcanic activity, Mid-Atlantic Ridge, Iceland, San Andreas ...

The Chief Scientist aboard, Doctor Maria Seton from the School of Geosciences at the University of Sydney told Radio Australia's Pacific Beat the 25 days journey provided significant evidence on ...