PLATE TECTONICS...

In 1912, there was a meteorologist, Alfred Wegener, who proposed that over a million years ago all the continents were together in one continent, which he named Pangea. He had a theory called Continental Drift, where he believed there was a shift that caused them to separate because he was able to trace fossils from South America and from Africa that matched showing that there was evidence that all the continents were together at some point and then drifted apart, he named the original continent Pangea. Due to the fact that he was just a meteorologist, when he released his book on the Continental Drift theory it was dismissed because he didn’t have the title to be sharing knowledge that was out of his field. It wasn’t till 1953 when Marie Tharp was able to create the first map of the ocean even though she wasn’t even let on the boat for being a female, that there was more evidence proving the theory of continental drift. But this still wasn't enough for the theory to be accepted. Once the word got out two gentlemen, Harry Hess and Jacques Cousteau wanted to prove Marie Tharp wrong. In the process they proved the "Continental Drift".