The theory was proposed by geophysicist and meteorologist Alfred Wegener in 1912 ... now part of the widely accepted theory of plate tectonics. Wegener's continental drift theory introduced ...

Exactly 100 years ago Alfred Wegener presented his theory of continental drift to the public for the first time. Modern plate tectonics confirmed his ideas by flipping them upside down. Exactly ...

But the theory of plate tectonics has rocked this picture of ... In 1912, German meteorologist Alfred Wegener proposed at a meeting of Frankfurt’s Geological Association that Earth’s ...

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 ...

Exactly 100 years ago, German geophysicist Alfred Wegener presented his theory ... Wegener’s theory has now been replaced by the theory of plate tectonics – an extension of continental drift ...

6, 1912 the German meteorologist Alfred Wegener presented in a ... later this legacy will influence a new kind of theory -- modern Plate Tectonics.

Alfred Wegener investigated this field and found ... all the evidence suggests that the theory of Plate Tectonics and continental drift is accurate. The Earth’s crust is constantly changing ...

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).

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 ...

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 ...