In 1912 he proposed that the continents we know today were once all attached in a single landmass he called Pangaea (Greek for "all earth"). They were surrounded by one global ocean, but then ...

The continents of Asia and Australia are on the verge of collision. It will occur sooner than you anticipate. And it’s moving ...

While this transformation won’t be complete for another 50 million years, the ongoing drift is already ... s eventual split. Future Ocean to Form Once the continental split completes, a new ...

where he put forth the idea of "continental displacement" or what later was called continental drift. The year 1912 was busy for Wegener: he got married (to the daughter of Germany's leading ...

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 ...