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 ...

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).

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

Wegener proposes idea of continental drift 1912. Ever since the continents were all mapped, people had noticed that many coastlines, like those of South America and Africa, looked as though they ...

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 ...

From the deepest ocean trench to the tallest mountain, plate tectonics explains the features and movement of Earth's surface in the present and the past. The theory of plate tectonics was ...

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 ...

(via TEDEd) In the early 20th century, Alfred Wegener's theory of Continental Drift laid the foundation for our modern theory of plate tectonics. And today we know something even more exciting: Pangea ...

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 ...