They now think that the continents are moving because of tectonic plates and how they move, or drift, apart.
They think a possible cause of continental drift is because of seafloor spreading and the water currents below the continents.
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You are sort of on the right track, but not near enough to have helped the 9 people Answers had already counted! Sea-floor spreading is part of continental drift, and the currents are not in water, but in the viscous rock Mantle.
The convection currents in the mantle from the heat of the core is the reason why the tectonic plates of earth move.
The shifting of tectonic plates under the earth.
i dont really know how or why srry :{
The shifting of tectonic plates.
They think a possible cause of continental drift is because of seafloor spreading and the water currents below the continents. +++ You are sort of on the right track, but not near enough to have helped the 9 people Answers had already counted! Sea-floor spreading is part of continental drift, and the currents are not in water, but in the viscous rock Mantle.
Because he could not explain how the continents moved.
Seafloor-spreading is the cause of continental drift
Alfred Wegener (1880-1930) is credited with establishing the theory of continental drift in 1912.
continental drift
They think a possible cause of continental drift is because of seafloor spreading and the water currents below the continents. +++ You are sort of on the right track, but not near enough to have helped the 9 people Answers had already counted! Sea-floor spreading is part of continental drift, and the currents are not in water, but in the viscous rock Mantle.
Alfred Wegener proposed the idea of continental drift in 1915
wegener a german scientist
A German scientist Alfred Wegener first proposed the idea of Continental Drift.
Because he could not explain how the continents moved.
Alfred Has Been Working On The Contintal Drift For A Long Time And Scientist Are Stilll Trying To Prove The Continental Drift. So The Continental Drift Is His First Discovery...,(:.!? --- Jocelyn !!
Auther Holmes is the Scientist who first proposed that theral convection in the mantle causes continental drift.
Auther Holmes is the Scientist who first proposed that theral convection in the mantle causes continental drift.
Alfred Wegner
Alfred
Seafloor-spreading is the cause 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.