Ever since the continents were all mapped, people had noticed that many coastlines, like those of South America and Africa, looked as though they would fit together if they could be moved like ...

In 1912 Alfred Wegener proposed that the continents had originated in the breakup of one supercontinent. His idea has not been widely accepted, hut new evidence suggests that the principle is correct ...

Wegener was dismissed as a presumptive amateur by most geologists and geophysicists of his time. Of the few who supported the better of his conclusions, several developed powerful evidence for the ...

It was not until the 1960s that evidence of convection currents within the mantle was discovered to support the theory fully. This slideshow explains Wegener’s theory. What was the evidence for ...

This geological survey evidence suggested that although ... The theory encapsulates both Alfred Wegener's ideas about ...

Ever since the continents were all mapped, people had noticed that many coastlines, like those of South America and Africa, looked as though they would fit together if they could be moved like ...

Lately, Wegener has brought forward much evidence in favour of continental movements ... works out the theory on the basis of a westerly drift of the continents. In doing so I think he is in ...