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Person1880 – 1930
Alfred Wegener
German meteorologist and polar explorer who proposed continental drift in 1912; never accepted in his lifetime, he died on an expedition across the Greenland ice sheet
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The supercontinent formed when Gondwana and Laurasia collided, gathering almost all the Earth’s land into one. Ringed by the great ocean Panthalassa, it began to break apart about 200 million years ago.
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The German meteorologist Alfred Wegener first presented his theory that the continents were once joined and have since drifted apart; half a century later it was accepted as plate tectonics.
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- Drifting Continentsc. 335 million years ago – 1912
From the single landmass of Pangaea to the opening of the Atlantic and India’s collision with Asia that raised the Himalaya — with the great extinctions and the dinosaurs along the way, and Wegener, who first said the continents move