Plate Tectonics...Chapter 9.1: Continental Drift Alfred Wegener (1880-1930) German geophysicist and...
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Plate Tectonics Chapter 9
Transcript of Plate Tectonics...Chapter 9.1: Continental Drift Alfred Wegener (1880-1930) German geophysicist and...
Plate Tectonics
Chapter 9
Chapter 9.1: Continental Drift
Alfred Wegener (1880-1930) German geophysicist and meteorologist, proposed the continental drift hypothesis in 1912
The continental drift hypothesis: continents had once been joined together to form a single supercontinent, called Pangaea which separated over time.