Topic: plate tectonics

plate tectonics theory that unifies many of the features and characteristics of continental drift and seafloor spreading into a coherent model and has revolutionized geologists' understanding of continents, ocean basins, mountains, and earth history. Development of Plate Tectonics Theory The beginnings of the theory of plate tectonics date to around 1920, when Alfred Wegener , the German meteorologist and geophysicist, presented the first detailed accounts of how today's continents were once a large supercontinent that slowly drifted to their present positions. Others brought... Read more