Plate tectonics give Earth its mountains, earthquakes, continental drift and maybe even helped give rise to life itself. But ...

The theory encapsulates both Alfred Wegener's ideas about continental drift and Harry ... itself, so Pangaea, the youngest, ...

If this was the case, then mountains would be spread evenly over the Earth’s surface. We know that this is not the case. Wegener suggested that mountains formed when the edge of a drifting ...

Plate tectonics was only discovered relatively recently. Though German meteorologist Alfred Wegner first proposed continental drift in 1912 ... and magnetometers before scientists studying ...

Plate tectonics give Earth its mountains, earthquakes, continental drift and maybe even helped give rise to life itself. But do other planets in the solar system have them too?

With the discovery of plate tectonics and the mapping of the ... Alfred Wegener's idea of "continental drift" looked less ludicrous than his contemporaries had thought. There still seemed to ...