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Cont. Drift Concepts

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Frank Taylor 1910 American geologist
Eduard Seuss 1909 Austrian Geologist
2 great ancestral continents are their territories? Gondwanaland: Africa, India, Arabia, S. America, Antartica, Australia, New Zealand. Laurentia: N. America, Greenland, Europe, Asia
Alfred Wegner 1915 German meteorologist
Frank Taylor Suggested there were 2 contenints situated of the poles
Frank Taylor Masses made slow journey towared equator,
Frank Taylor no explination was offered for geological features
Eduard Seuss wrote 4 volume work "face of the earth"
Eduard Seuss Suggested dynamic movement in earths crust due to shrinking core
Alfred Wegener Considered to be "father of Plate Tectonics". Suggested Pangea, which general movement was to the west
Alfred Wegner Provided detailed description of geological features which southern continents have in common; could not provide explination for break up
Arthur Holmes 1920 British geologist
Arther Holmes 1928 suggested thaat convection cells within earths crust and matle were responsible for continental drift
Arther Holmes First individual to hint at modern mechanisms bu which seafloor spreading is driving force behind plate movements
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