Getting the drift on continental shifts. (Brief Article)

From: Science News | Date: February 12, 1994 | Copyright information

It doesn't take great detective skills to notice that the coastlines of South America and Africa would fit nicely together if the two sat side by side. This observation, followed by others, led German meteorologist Alfred Wegener in 1912 to propose the theory of continental drift, which holds that the landmasses migrate around the planet, sometimes colliding and other times rifting. Although scientists give Wegener and others of his time credit for formulating the drift hypothesis, a researcher has now traced elements of the idea back three centuries earlier, to a Dutch ...

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