It emphasizes the evidence supporting plate tectonics ... Keywords plate tectonics, continental drift, geological change, earthquakes, volcanic activity, Mid-Atlantic Ridge, Iceland, San Andreas ...

The evidence for continental drift comes from a variety of sources. One of the most compelling pieces of evidence is the fit between the coastlines of South America and Africa. When these two ...

Did the continents begin to drift apart some 200 million years ago? Some scientists believe so, and many recent findings support them. This month still more compelling evidence of continental ...

Geological evidence, for example ... isn't melting fast enough to have much of an impact on the planet's continental drift. But it could still have a major influence on Iceland over the next ...

This article was originally published with the title “ The Confirmation of Continental Drift ” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 218 No. 4 (April 1968), p. 52 doi:10.1038 ...

Yes, there is fossil evidence of continental drift. Fossils were also key to helping scientists figure out that the world used to be one whole landmass, the supercontinent Pangea, which slowly split ...

But it was the Americans who came down hardest against continental drift. A paleontologist called it “Germanic pseudo­-science” and accused Wegener of toying with the evidence to spin himself ...

Geological evidence, for example, suggests that the island underwent ... Today, ice over Greenland isn’t melting fast enough to have much of an impact on the planet’s continental drift. But it could ...