Continental drift
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Continental drift is the movement of Earth's continents relative to each other over geologic time. When initially proposed as a scientific theory in the early 20th century, the idea that continents co
Abraham Ortelius by Peter Paul Rubens, 1633
Antonio Snider-Pellegrini's Illustration of the closed and opened Atlantic Ocean (1858)
Alfred Wegener
Alfred Wegener
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Alfred Lothar Wegener was a German climatologist, geologist, geophysicist, meteorologist, and polar researcher.
Continental drift
…in 1596. A pioneer of the modern view of mobilism was Austrian geologist Otto Ampferer. The concept was independently and more fully developed by Alfred Wegener in 1912, and expanded into book form with his 1915 publication, Die Entstehung der Kontinente und Ozeane (The Origin of Continents and Oceans). However…
Wegener, c. 1924–1930
Commemorative plaque on Wegener's former school in Wallstrasse
Plaque on the university building in Marburg where Wegener worked