The professor assured that humans would only observe miniature changes of the larger process of continental drift throughout their lifecycle, in the form of earthquakes and volcanoes. The new ...

The concept of continents drifting apart isn’t new. Fossils, like those of Cynognathus ... these continents were once joined before continental drift separated them. The Geological Society ...

But no sooner did he finish his dissertation than he dropped astronomy to study meteorology, the new science ... of "continental displacement" or what later was called continental drift.

It's difficult to imagine a process more gradual than continental drift. But some scientists say that, slow or not, this repositioning of the world's landmasses was disastrous for dinosaurs.

If this was the case, then mountains would be spread evenly over the Earth’s surface. We know that this is not the case. Wegener suggested that mountains formed when the edge of a drifting ...

Continental Drift 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 ...