Wegener collected various other evidence ... and decades later this legacy will influence a new kind of theory -- modern Plate Tectonics.

The theory of Plate tectonics – developed from Alfred Wegener’s theory of Continental Drift to explain the movement of the continents – has become the prevailing theory underpinning our ...

Scientists confirmed some of Wegener's ideas decades later, which are now part of the widely accepted theory of plate tectonics. Wegener's continental drift theory introduced the idea of moving ...

Wegener stands out because his solution ... did the key work that created the theory of plate tectonics as we know it — explaining continental drift, volcanism, seismicity and heat flow around ...

As much as he liked to study the weather, Wegener is best known today as the father of the continentaldrift theory and the early theory of plate tectonics (the movement of the Earth’s plates).

It was a century ago this spring that a little-known German meteorologist named Alfred Wegener proposed that ... and the more recent science of plate tectonics are now the bedrock of modern ...

Alfred Wegener was one of those people ... Harry Hess and others led to the development of plate tectonics. Though not without problems, this theory has gained wide acceptance.

The study of these plate movements came to be known as plate tectonics. The theory encapsulates both Alfred Wegener's ideas about continental drift and Harry Hess' discoveries about seafloor spreading ...