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4 days ago · In 1912, the meteorologist Alfred Wegener described what he called continental drift, an idea that culminated fifty years later in the modern theory of plate tectonics. Wegener expanded his theory in his 1915 book The Origin of Continents and Oceans.
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5 days ago · The Theory of Continental Drift, first proposed by Alfred Wegener in 1912, suggests that the Earth’s continents were once part of a single landmass called Pangaea. Over millions of years, these continents gradually drifted apart and formed the continents we see today.
5 days ago · So far, however, reliable records proximal to West Antarctica that could document the presence or absence of a West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) during the EOGM are missing. Here we report on drill core records from the West Antarctic margin that reveal paleoenvironmental conditions during the EOGM.
5 days ago · Alfred Wegener, an astronomer by training and meteorologist by profession, visualised that there was once a single very large landmass on the surface of the earth. Gradually it broke up into smaller fragments which drifted away to form the present continents.
5 days ago · The root for this could lie in its formation, as an international research team led by the Alfred Wegener Institute has now discovered: sediment samples from drill cores combined with complex...
4 days ago · An international research team led by the Alfred Wegener Institute found the permanent glaciation of Antarctic ice activated roughly 34 million years ago. This was determined by analyzing...
