Scientists confirmed some of Wegener's ideas decades later, which are now part of the widely accepted theory of plate tectonics. Wegener's continental drift theory introduced the idea of moving ...

Hundreds of million of years ago our planet looked a whole lot different, as the continents we know today were still touching ...

The scientists discovered that this global thaw may have also had unexpected consequences—including for plate tectonics, or the internal clockwork ... the motion of the North American continental ...

From the deepest ocean trench to the tallest mountain, plate tectonics explains the features and movement of Earth's surface in the present and the past. The theory of plate tectonics was ...

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 ...

Geologists therefore have no oceanic "railway map" for continental drift before Pangaea. We have to fall back on evidence from the continents themselves, just as Wegener did when attempting to ...