Historical Events tagged with "alfred wegener"
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Alfred Wegener Presents Continental Drift Theory
German geophysicist Alfred Wegener first presented his groundbreaking theory of continental drift at a meeting of the German Geological Society in Frankfurt. Wegener proposed that continents are not fixed in place but move across the Earth's surface over geological timescales. His ideas were revolutionary, challenging the existing geologic opinions that had dominated for decades and laying the groundwork for later developments in plate tectonics. He argued that the continents once formed a single landmass called Pangaea, which eventually split apart and drifted to their current positions.
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