Groundbreaking research by Alfred Wegener reveals the phenomenon of continental drift. However, Wegener's research was largely ignored by his contemporaries
For Alfred Wegener It seemed very obvious by looking at the continents that they fit together like a puzzle and at one time was one big continent, but in order to prove that the continents have shifted over time Alfred Wegener needed more evidence.
Video Guide
00:00 Introduction to Evidence for Continental Drift
00:44 Continents fit together like a puzzle
00:58 Glacial Evidence
01:13 Fossil Evidence
02:16 Similar Mountains
02:36 Coal in Antartica