Chapter 19 Plate Tectonics. Alfred Wegener l A man with an idea. l In 1912 l Noticed similar shapes l similar fossils l Similar rock structures l Similar.
Plate Tectonics Part1
The natural setting and it's people - Social Studies
Plate Tectonics: History and Boundaries
Continental Driftsfe
Alfred Wegener & Continental Drift Dark Brown = evidence of one connected.
From the time maps of the globe became available, people wondered about the arrangement of the continents and oceans. Hundreds of years later, valid explanations.
Selective Survival of Crust Paul Morgan Department of Geology Northern Arizona University Flagstaff, Arizona, USA Penrose Conference Lander, WY; 14-18.
Physical Geography: Landforms. Overview Geologic Time Movements of the Continents Earth Materials Tectonic Forces Weathering and Erosion Processes Erosional.
Alfred Wegener was the man who first thought of the theory of Tectonic Plates. When Alfred was in college he studied physics, astronomy, and meteorology.
Who was Alfred Wegener? Alfred Wegener was a young German scientist who in 1910 proposed that the continents moved. What was Wegener’s hypothesis?
Continental Drift- The Theory. The Earth’s crust is broken into about 12 rigid plates, which slide over a semi-molten plastic layer of the mantle.
