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What evidence did wegener gather to support his continental drift hypothesis?
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∙ 12y ago
Well it wasn't so much climate as the fossils that have been found. Fossils have been found in Antarctica of plants that only occur in tropical climates so at one point it must have had a tropical climate. That is the most dramatic example but there are more subtle ones that led him to believe that the continents, at one point, must have been in different locations on the Earth and then moved to where they currently are.
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∙ 12y agoaccording to Wegeners hypothesis,earths continents were joined in a single landmass.
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Name of the scientist that came up with the continental drift hypothesis?
Did you mean Plate Tectonics Theory? - Plate Tectonics Theory is the combination of Continental Drift and Ocean/Sea Floor Spreading. BTW. The scientist who started it is Howard Baker continued by Alfred Wegener.
Why was wegener's continental drift hypothesis not widely accepted?
People thought he was crazy and not very smart but he proved them. He found a way.
According to Wegener and the hypothesis of continental drift Pangaea broke apart 200 million years ago. What was Pangaea?
Pangaea was the supercontinent into which all the land masses were concentrated until about 200 million years ago.
Why did most scientists reject wegeners hypothesis?
I've included 3 links on Alfred Wegener's life. He died at the age of 50 in 1930. His speciality was meteorology and well published in this area. The concept of continental drift began by the observation of the close fit between South America and Africa. Fossil evidence gave some support to the hypothesis. The concept of the continents drifting for hundreds of millions of years was criticized as too radical a departure and based on scant evidence. Also, in Wegener's hypothesis was the existence of Pangaea, where initially all continents were connected. George Gaylord Simpson was a well known scientist who was highly critical of continental drift. The view to the contrary was the continents had remained fixed and it was the plants and animals that had dispersed themselves on both continents. Per George Gaylord Simpson, his paper in 1939 seem to lay a solid foundation against continental drift. Antarctica as a faunal migration route. Proceedings, Sixth Pacific Congress, 1939, p. 755-768. First of Simpson's papers that directly addresses historical biogeography. He argues that land-bridges and continental drift are not necessary to explain disjunctive distributions. "In scientific theory the best-supported and most nearly self-sufficient hypothesis should be preferred and unnecessary additional hypotheses should be rejected or held in abeyance." (See "Evolution and Geography," 1953.) It is recognized today that Alfred Wegener was way ahead of his time.
Explain who proposed the continental drift theory?
Alfred Wegener proposed the theory of continental drift at the beginning of the 20th century. His idea was that the Earth's continents were once joined together, but gradually moved apart over millions of years. The idea was rejected at first as he was a Meteorologist and not regarded as a proper scientist.
Which type of evidence was not used by Alfred wegener to support his continental hypothesis?
Which type of evidence was NOT used by Alfred Wegener to support his continental drift hypothesis human remains
Which type of evidence was not used by Alfred wegener to support his continental drift hypothesis?
Which type of evidence was NOT used by Alfred Wegener to support his continental drift hypothesis human remains
What types of evidence was used by Alfred Wegener to support his continental drift hypothesis?
human remains
How did Wegener use four type of evidence to help support his hypothesis of continental drift?
I have tried time and time again to figure it out but it is impossible.
Why scientists rejected wegener's hypothesis of continental drift?
Scientist rejected Wegners hypothesis of continental drift at first because he did not have enogh evidence to support his theory. He failed to provide a suitable mechanism that could cause the continents to move.
How did fossil provide evidence for Continental drift?
It is any trace of an ancient organism that has been preserved in rock.Fossils provided evidence for continental drift by Wegener's hypothesis. Wegener studied land features, fossils, and evidence of climate change.
Who was the person that that made a hypothesis of continental drift?
It was Alfred Wegener but other scientists did not believe him but he found evidence
Fossils of tropical plants found on an island in the Arctic Ocean are the evidence for Wegener's hypothesis of?
Continental drift
Why was Alfred Wegener's hypothesis of continental drift not taken seriously by most geologists?
Alfred Wegener's hypothesis of continental drift not taken seriously
How did Wigner use the island of Spitsbergen to support the theory of continental drift?
First of all it is Wegener, Alfred Lothar Wegener to be percised. He was a german scientist who had the hypothesis for continental drift. His hypothesis got rejected by other scientist because it interferred with their ideas on how mountains form.Wegener used Spitsbergen to support his evidence for continental drift because Spitsbergen is now a snowy reigon and geoigists had found fossils of tropical plants.Tropical plants cannot grow in a snowy reigon.
What is Alfred Wegener known for?
His hypothesis of continental drift
Why was the hypothesis of continental drift rejected when it was proposed by wegener?
Wegener couldn't explain how or why continents moved.
