1967 Jason Morgan, Dan McKenzie and Xavier le Pichon; Developed all the earlier ideas into plate tectonic theory 1858 Antonio Snider; Published first map showing Africa and South America joined together - they broke apart during Noah’s flood. 1965 J. Tuzo Wilson; Proposed that the Earth is divided into several large rigid plates - these are moved apart as sea floors spread. 1937 a lot of geological evidence Alexander Du Toit; Published, ‘Our wandering continents’. Compiled supporting the idea (i.e. matching rocks on either side of the Atlantic basin). ‘continental drift’ 1910 F.B. Taylor; He envisaged a of the and collision with ‘mighty creeping movement’ Earth’s crust other continents to explain the Tertiary mountain belts, e.g. the Himalayas and the Alps. 1660 Francis Bacon; Noticed that the coastlines of Africa and South America had similar shapes. Fred Vine and Drummond Matthews; Explained the symmetrical magnetic stripes on the ocean 1963 floor in terms of sea floor spreading. 1956 S.K. Runcorn; Paleomagnetic evidence from continental rocks appeared to show that the magnetic poles of the Earth had moved - was later shown that not the poles but ‘polar wandering’ (it the continents had moved). 1904 Eduard Suess; The rock structures on either side of the Atlantic were very similar - but this was explained by the collapse below sea level of a supposed continent in between – “Atlantis”. 1962 Harry Hess; Proposed that new ocean floor was made in the centres of oceans and then carried sideways on convection current conveyor belts - this became called the floor spreading ‘sea hypothesis’. 1929 Arthur Holmes; Proposed that there were convection currents in the mantle below the crust.
1967 Jason Morgan, Dan McKenzie and Xavier le Pichon; Developed all the earlier ideas into plate tectonic theory 1858 Antonio Snider; Published first map showing Africa and South America joined together - they broke apart during Noah’s flood. 1965 J. Tuzo Wilson; Proposed that the Earth is divided into several large rigid plates - these are moved apart as sea floors spread. 1937 Alexander Du Toit; Published, ‘Our wandering continents’. Compiled a lot of geological evidence supporting the ‘continental drift’ idea (i.e. matching rocks on either side of the Atlantic basin). 1910 F.B. Taylor; He envisaged a ‘mighty creeping movement’ of the Earth’s crust and collision with other continents to explain the Tertiary mountain belts, e.g. the Himalayas and the Alps. 1660 Francis Bacon; Noticed that the coastlines of Africa and South America had similar shapes. 1963 Fred Vine and Drummond Matthews; Explained the symmetrical magnetic stripes on the ocean floor in terms of sea floor spreading. 1956 S.K. Runcorn; Paleomagnetic evidence from continental rocks appeared to show that the magnetic poles of the Earth had moved - ‘polar wandering’ (it was later shown that not the poles but the continents had moved). 1904 Eduard Suess; The rock structures on either side of the Atlantic were very similar - but this was explained by the collapse below sea level of a supposed continent in between – “Atlantis”. 1962 Harry Hess; Proposed that new ocean floor was made in the centres of oceans and then carried sideways on convection current conveyor belts - this became called the ‘sea floor spreading hypothesis’. 1929 Arthur Holmes; Proposed that there were convection currents in the mantle below the crust.
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