If this was the case, then mountains would be spread evenly over the Earth’s surface. We know that this is not the case. Wegener suggested that mountains formed when the edge of a drifting ...

Plate tectonics (from the Late Latin tectonicus ... This theoretical model builds on the concept of continental drift which was developed during the first few decades of the 20th century.

In 1912 he proposed that the continents we know today were once all attached in a single landmass he called Pangaea (Greek ... led to the development of plate tectonics. Though not without ...

Plate tectonics is the theory that Earth's outer ... Back then, all the major continents formed one giant supercontinent, called Pangaea. Perhaps initiated by heat building up underneath the ...

Plate tectonics give rise to Earth's mountain ranges, earthquakes and the long-term movement of continents, and may even have provided the right conditions for life on Earth. But as far as we know ...

This is understandable, given that knowledge about the Earth's tectonic plates was formed during a period when we also discovered fossil fuel reserves offshore from continental shelves.

Around 200 million years ago, Earth's last supercontinent Pangea ... Plate tectonics was only discovered relatively recently. Though German meteorologist Alfred Wegner first proposed continental ...

The crust of the earth is thin - a bit like the skin of an apple.The crust is made from solid rock in the form of tectonic plates ... a theory called continental drift. This was a was a ...