Continental Drift & Plate Tectonics

Accepted · 1912

Status: Accepted
Year: 1912

Summary

The continents move, riding rigid plates on a convecting mantle. Wegener saw the fit of the coastlines and was dismissed for lack of a mechanism; seafloor spreading supplied one fifty years later.

Equations

Seismic Wave Speeds Elastic Wave Equation

Proponent

Harry Hess Alfred Wegener J. Tuzo Wilson

Referenced by

equation

Elastic Wave Equation Seismic Wave Speeds

researcher

Alfred Wegener Harry Hess J. Tuzo Wilson

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