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Alfred Wegener discovered Pangaea in 1915. After discovering the idea of tectonic plates. Through this discovery he perfected an image of Pangaea when the worlds tectonic plates had not moved.
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∙ 11y agoI have not been able to find a satisfactory answer to this question in university standard textbooks on geology or on any webpage. But I do have an answer from The Bible. Ps.24.1 reads 'The earth is the Lord's....for He has founded it upon the seas and established it upon the waters ' (NKJ Version)
The word 'earth' here means the dry land or supercontinent Pangaea ( Gen.1:10) so what Ps. 24:1 means is that (in scientific terms) Pangaea was in fact a small moon (which I have called Esther in my book) which came under the Earth' s gravitational influence when the Earth had no land but only a global ocean. Other verses in the Bible tell us how Esther broke up and spread her contents on the ocean floor and the sea did the rest and Pangaea emerged as a near circular supercontinent. (Leander R Pimenta)
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∙ 14y agoAlfred Wegener, a German scientist in the early 1900's.
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∙ 14y agoAlfred Wegener was the first to place it in a scientific paper.
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∙ 13y agoAlfred Wegener.
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What are the five stages of how pangaea has thought to have evolved?
they are Permian, Triassic, Jurassic, Cretaceous, and today
Wegeners's idea that the continents slowly move over earth's surface became know as?
Pangaea
What was Wegener's hypothesis about Earths continents have moved?
He thought that 300 million years ago, there was a supercontinent named Pangaea(There are many ways to spell this word) and it contained today's seven continents. A lot of scientists rejected his hypothesis because it contradicted their idea how mountains formed(A long time ago, they thought that Earth was slowly shrinking). He used fossils, land features, and ancient climatic zones to prove his idea, but the idea was never accepted until today.
Why wasn't Wegener's theory of Pangaea accepted at first?
His idea was not accepted because people back then did not believe that the plates could move. They also thought you could fall off the Earth but that is a different question. The theory was put forward first by Abraham Orthelius but was fully developed by Alfred Wegner. His theory was not thought of because people thought it was not possible for the tectonic plates of the earth to move.
Is the scientist who first proposed the existence of pangaea and panthalassa albert einstein alfred wegener isaac newton johannes kepler?
Alfred Wegener was a German weatherman (more specifically, a meteorologist at the University of Marburg) who wrote a book, "Die Entstehung der Kontinente und Ozeane," or "The Origin of Continents and Oceans" on the idea of Pangaea. This book came out in 1912 in Germany and 1915 in the USA, despite the First World War going on. Although Alfred Wegener is often recognized as being the originator of the idea of Pangaea, the American geologist Frank Bursley Taylor started theorizing about Pangaea in 1908. He did not, however, really go anywhere with this idea and didn't come up with the name "Pangaea". Alfred Wegener did.
What is the first Pangaea discovered?
pangaea was thought about 200 million years ago
Who came up with the idea of Pangaea?
Alfred Wegener
What are the five stages of how pangaea has thought to have evolved?
they are Permian, Triassic, Jurassic, Cretaceous, and today
Who first put forward the idea of Pangaea?
Alfred Wegener first put forward the idea in 1912
Is an idea a type of thought or is a thought a type of idea?
An idea can generally be seen as a mental concept or insight that represents a particular thought or perspective. In this sense, a thought can be a manifestation or expression of an idea.
Wegeners's idea that the continents slowly move over earth's surface became know as?
Pangaea
What was Wegener's hypothesis about Earths continents have moved?
He thought that 300 million years ago, there was a supercontinent named Pangaea(There are many ways to spell this word) and it contained today's seven continents. A lot of scientists rejected his hypothesis because it contradicted their idea how mountains formed(A long time ago, they thought that Earth was slowly shrinking). He used fossils, land features, and ancient climatic zones to prove his idea, but the idea was never accepted until today.
What evidence supports the idea of pangaea?
Fossil records, land forms(mountains,ect), weather and climate
What is a theory to support continental drift?
Pangaea , all the continents are thought to have fit together millions of years ago.
Why wasn't Wegener's theory of Pangaea accepted at first?
His idea was not accepted because people back then did not believe that the plates could move. They also thought you could fall off the Earth but that is a different question. The theory was put forward first by Abraham Orthelius but was fully developed by Alfred Wegner. His theory was not thought of because people thought it was not possible for the tectonic plates of the earth to move.
What is a pangaea plate?
A Pangaea plate is a Pangaea plate
Is continental drift and Pangaea the same thing that happend in or on the continents?
yes and no, the continental drift is Wegener's idea that the continents slowly moved apart. Pangea is the name of all the continents. Pangaea means "all lands"
