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 ...

"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 ...

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

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 ...

"All of these lines of evidence indicate plate tectonics is speeding up, not slowing down," says Condie. Why continental drift is accelerating, however, is a mystery, says Condie. A separate paper ...

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 ...

According to some scientists, fossil evidence clearly shows a decline ... According to many scientists, continental drift and ocean regression would have caused continents to become drier, cooler ...

Alfred Wegener was the first to offer evidence that our continents were ... With respect to this, the old term continental drift is not 100 percent correct, because the land masses do not actually ...

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 ...

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 ...