History is full of scientific ideas that sounded absurd, offended common sense, or clashed with powerful institutions, only ...

READERS of NATURE have been served with good reviews and discussions on the Wegener hypothesis, and it may therefore be of interest to point out that, so far as it relates to the origin of the ...

Plate tectonics is the theory used to explain the structure of the Earth’s crust and many of the associated phenomena. The rigid lithosphere is split into 7 major ‘plates’ that slowly move on top of ...

When meteorologist Alfred Wegener proposed in 1912 that continents drifted across Earth's surface, the scientific community wasn't just skeptical - they were downright hostile. Wegener's inability to ...

The Geographical Journal has been published since 1831, and was the Society's journal of report until the relaunch in 2000. It has the highest circulation of any British academic journal in its field ...

40,000 years ago rapid warming led to an increase in methane concentration. The culprit for this increase has now been identified. Mainly wetlands in high northern latitudes caused the methane ...

WEGENER'S hypothesis is based on the idea VV that the continental masses are patches of lighter rock floating and moving in a layer of denser rock, and this denser rock forms the floor of the oceans.