transcript. Animated Life: Pangea This animated documentary tells the story of polar explorer Alfred Wegener, the unlikely scientist behind continental drift theory.

Today fundamental principles of modern plate tectonics, his arguments were received with mixed feelings at the time. Newsletters Games Share a News Tip. ... Wegener's continental drift theory ...

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 ...

Continental drift was a revolutionary theory explaining that continents shift position on Earth's surface. The theory was proposed by geophysicist and meteorologist Alfred Wegener in 1912, but was ...

Wegener’s theory states that 250 million years ago, the land that makes up our continents ... Pangaea was formed by the collision of land masses Gondwana, Euramerica and Siberia.

As an early advocate of an immature theory, Wegener was different. There were substantial differences of opinion about crustal mobility among scientists in the 1920s. By the 1970s, work such as ...

Alfred Wegener , in Greenland, c ... Continental drift and the more recent science of plate tectonics are now ... an audience member thanked the speaker for having blown Wegener’s theory to bits ...

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 wasn't until 1912 that meteorologist Alfred Wegener hypothesized that Earth's continents had once been joined as a supercontinent that we now call Pangea. Wegener had noticed that the borders of ...

It wasn't until 1912 that meteorologist Alfred Wegener hypothesized that Earth's continents had once been joined as a supercontinent that we now call Pangea. Wegener had noticed that the borders of ...