More than a century ago, the scientist Alfred Wegener proposed the notion of an ancient supercontinent, which he named Pangaea (sometimes spelled Pangea), after putting together several lines of evidence. The word "Pangaea" comes from the Greek "pan," which means "all," and "gaia" or "Eart...
according to Veit Helm and other glaciologists at the Alfred Wegener Institute in Bremerhaven, Germany. Using satellite mapping technology, the German team found that ice sheets in Greenland and Western Antarctica, spanning thousands of miles, are losing 500 cubic kilometers (about 120 cubic miles...
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©Hannes Grobe, Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research / Creative Commons – Original The Adélie penguin is one of the most easily identifiable penguin species. They have blue-black backs and completely white chests and bellies. Their heads and beaks are both black, with a dis...
Developed from the 1950s through the 1970s, plate tectonics is the modern version of continental drift, a theory first proposed by scientist Alfred Wegener in 1912. Wegener didn’t have an explanation for how continents could move around the planet, but researchers do now. Plate tectonics is ...
George Gaylord Simpson was a prominent paleontologist who was highly influential in the scientific community, yet he was wrong in his opposition to Alfred Wegener's theory of continental drift. Simpson argued that the continents were too rigid to move, and that the fossil records did not support...
In this manuscript we describe the experimental procedure employed at the Alfred Wegener Institute in Germany in the preparation of the simulations for the... C Stepanek,G Lohmann - 《Geoscientific Model Development》 被引量: 91发表: 2012年 Late quaternary volcanic modulation of Milankovitch climate...
Alfred Wegener, German meteorologist and geophysicist who formulated the first complete statement of the continental drift hypothesis. His theory was rejected by most geologists during his lifetime but was resurrected and made a central feature of modern
Because these magnetic anomalies form at oceanic ridges, they tend to be long, linear features (hence the name linear magnetic anomalies) that are symmetrically disposed about ridge axes. The past positions of the continents during the last 150 million years (the maximum age of most of the ...
. The supercontinent began to break apart about 200 million years ago, during the EarlyJurassic Epoch(201 million to 174 million years ago), eventually forming the moderncontinentsand theAtlanticandIndianoceans. Pangea’s existence was first proposed in 1912 by German meteorologistAlfred Wegeneras a...