EARTH’S

GEOLOGIC
HISTORY
Alfred Lothar Wegener

• A German geophysicist and meteorologist.

• He earned a PhD in astronomy from the
University of Berlin in 1904.
• It was not until 1912 that the idea of moving
continents was seriously considered as a full-
blown scientific theory called Continental Drift
continental drift
hypothesis
developed in the early part of
the 20th century
continents move around on
Earth’s surface and that they
were once joined as a single
supercontinent.
Pangaea
Supercontinent
means all earth in ancient
Greek
The true size and shape of a continent and many can be pieced
together like a puzzle. The easiest link is between the eastern Americas
and western Africa and Europe, but the rest can fit together to