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Born This Day: Alfred Wegener
Source info:
| Author: | Michael J. Ryan, Ph.D. |
|---|---|
| Date: | 2015-11-01 13:00:00 |
| Blog: | Palaeoblog  |
| URL: | http://palaeoblog.blogspot.com/2015/11/born-this-day-alfred-wegener.html |
Summary:
Visit The Paleomap Project Alfred Lothar Wegener (Nov. 1, 1880 – Nov, 1930) was a German meteorologist and geophysicist who first gave a well-developed hypothesis of continental drift. He suggested (1912) that about 250 million yrs ago all the present-day continents came from a single primitive land mass, the supercontinent Pangaea, which eventually broke up and gradually drifted apart. (AContent analysis:
Geographic context:
| Location | Country | Latitude | Longitude |
|---|---|---|---|
| Germany | DE | 51.1642 | 10.4542 |
Keywords:
Alfred Lothar Wegener, Alfred Wegener Visit, continental drift, geophysicist, German meteorologist, Nov, Nov., Paleomap Project, present-day continents, single primitive land, supercontinent Pangaea, well-developed hypothesis, yrs
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