Wegener and the Continental Drift Hypothesis

Wegener and the Continental Drift Hypothesis

In the early 1900s, Alfred Wegener, a German scientist, proposed the Continental Drift Hypothesis, the idea that Earth’s continents were once joined together in a supercontinent called Pangaea and slowly drifted apart over millions of years. Although his ideas were not wid...

Did you know the continents fit together like puzzle pieces? In 1912, German scientist Alfred Wegener proposed the Continental Drift Hypothesis in his book, The Origin of Continents and Oceans.

He observed that mountain ranges and coal fields on different continents...