Continental apparent movement
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This article is about the development of the Continental drift hypothesis before 1958. For the contemporary theory, see house tectonics.
For the Russell Banks novel, see Continental Drift (novel).
Antonio Snider-Pellegrinis Illustration of the closed and receptive Atlantic Ocean (1858).
Continental drift is the movement of the Earths continents congeneric to each other by appearing to drift crosswise the ocean bed.[1] The speculation that continents might have drifted was first set apart forward by Abraham Ortelius in 1596. The concept was independently (and more than fully) developed by Alfred Wegener in 1912. The theory of continental drift was superseded by the theory of plate tectonics, which builds upon and better explains why the continents move.
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[edit]History
Further information:Â Timeline of the development of tectonophysics
[edit]Early history
Abraham Ortelius (Ortelius 1596),[2] Theodor Christoph Lilienthal (1756),[3] Alexander von Humboldt (1801 and 1845),[3] Antonio Snider-Pellegrini (Snider-Pellegrini 1858), and others had noted previous that the shapes of continents on opposite sides of the Atlantic Ocean (most notably, Africa and South America) take care to fit together.[4] W. J. Kious described Ortelius thoughts in this way:[5]
Abraham Ortelius in his subject field Thesaurus Geographicus ... suggested that the Americas were torn away from Europe and Africa ... by earthquakes and floods and went on to say: The vestiges of the rupture reveal themselves, if someone brings forward a map of the world and considers carefully the coasts of the three [continents].
Writing in 1889, Alfred Russel Wallace remarks It was formerly a very general belief, even amongst geologists, that the salient features of the earths surface, no less than the smaller ones, were subject to continual mutations, and...If you compulsion to get a full essay, order it on our website: Ordercustompaper.com
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