It took more than 50 years for Wegener’s theory to be accepted. One of the reasons was that it was difficult to work out how whole continents could move. It was not until the 1960s that evidence ...

They constituted the first focused and rational argument for continental drift, but still they veered ... and after World War II, Wegener's theories were vindicated by the work of Harry Hess ...

Scientific, cultural and legal definitions of continental and oceanic regions ... The scientific theory of plate tectonics became widely accepted during the 1960s. A plate is about 100 kilometres ...

Continental Drift (1980) Posted: March 12, 2025 | Last updated: March 19, 2025 The film discusses the theory of plate tectonics and continental drift, explaining how the Earth's surface has ...

Plate tectonics is relatively new, put forth in the last 30 years or so — its forerunner was the now-discarded continental drift theory. The theory states that Earth's outer shell is made up of ...

It's difficult to imagine a process more gradual than continental drift. But some scientists say that, slow or not, this repositioning of the world's landmasses was disastrous for dinosaurs.