WE really are one world, according to the findings of AlfredWegener, a guy who really knew his weather. Born on Nov. 1, 1880, in Germany, he received a Ph.D. in astronomy from the University of Berlin ...
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 ...
Translation of: Alfred Wegener und die Drift der Kontinente. https://siris-libraries.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=liball&source=~!silibraries&uri=full=3100001 ...
Alfred Wegener was born in Berlin in 1880, where his father was a minister who ran an orphanage. From an early age he took an interest in Greenland, and always walked, skated, and hiked as though ...
1. The boy : Berlin and Brandenburg, 1880-1899 -- 2. The student : Berlin-Heidelberg-Innsbruck-Berlin, 1899-1901 -- 3. The astronomer : Berlin, 1901-1904 -- 4. The ...
Ever since the continents were all mapped, people had noticed that many coastlines, like those of South America and Africa, looked as though they would fit together if they could be moved like puzzle ...
Wegener deduced, correctly, that oceans are underlain by dense rocks and continents by light rocks, but he erred in arguing that the continents were rafts floating about in the dense material. He died ...
THE complex problem of continental drift has everywhere been the subject of animated discussion in geological circles during recent years, and the publication of the papers presented at a symposium ...
Today Cray announced the Company has been awarded a contract to provide the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) with a Cray CS400 cluster supercomputer.
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