Alfred Wegener was one of those people. Though trained as an astronomer, he was a specialist on Greenland. He noticed that, based on nineteenth-century longitude determinations, it appeared that ...

Alfred Wegener was born in Berlin in 1880 ... the idea of "continental displacement" or what later was called continental drift. The year 1912 was busy for Wegener: he got married (to the daughter ...

More by J. Tuzo Wilson This article was originally published with the title “ Continental Drift ” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 208 No. 4 (April 1963), p. 86 doi:10.1038 ...

It is the modern update to continental drift, an idea first proposed by scientist Alfred Wegener in 1912, who that Earth’s continents had "drifted" across the planet over time. Wegener didn't ...

We know that this is not the case. Wegener suggested that mountains formed when the edge of a drifting continent collided with another, causing it to crumple and fold. For example, the Himalayas ...