When meteorologist Alfred Wegener proposed in 1912 that continents drifted across Earth's surface, the scientific community wasn't just skeptical - they were downright hostile. Wegener's inability to ...

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The breakup of the South Atlantic region, which led to the separation of the African and South American continents, is a well-known global phenomenon. In fact, the famous continental drift theory put ...

While the Google Doodle illustrates the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum — with notes that reflect Ortelius’s compendium of data, names of scientists, theories, and even sea monsters — a closer look at the ...

Six seismologists and a civil servant, charged with manslaughter for failing to predict a 2009 earthquake that killed 308 people in the Apennine Mountain city of L’Aquila, in Italy, will serve six ...

V. 1. Wegener and the early debate -- v. 2. Paleomagnetism and confirmation of drift -- v. 3. Introduction of seafloor spreading -- v. 4. Evolution into plate tectonics "Resolution of the sixty year ...

Were all continents once snuggled together in a mammoth land mass surrounded by a single shimmering sea? Did the continents begin to drift apart some 200 million years ago? Some scientists believe so, ...