EARTH SCIENCE
TECTONICS
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Frankfurt News announcement that Alfred Wegener will be speaking at the Geological Association.
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Popular Geology magazines statement that continent size dictates that they have always been where they are.
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Wegeners’s theory labeled a “Fairy Tale” by Bailey Willis.
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Movement of continents tracked each year.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Fossil Evidence One type of evidence that strongly supported the Theory of Continental Drift is the fossil record. Scientists have found fossils of similar types of plants and animals in rocks of similar age. These rocks were on the shores of different continents. This suggests that the continents were once joined.
Detailed explanation-2: -They based their idea of continental drift on several lines of evidence: fit of the continents, paleoclimate indicators, truncated geologic features, and fossils.
Detailed explanation-3: -In 1915 a meteorologist, Alfred Wegener (1912), published the concept of continental drift and of a supercontinent comprising all of the world’s continents merged into a single mass, which he called Pangaea. His proposition was that Pangaea had since split apart, the continents moving into their present locations.
Detailed explanation-4: -Plate tectonics is the theory that Earth’s land masses are in constant motion. The realization that Earth’s land masses move was first proposed by Alfred Wegener, which he called continental drift.