Alfred Wegener Research Paper

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In 1912, Alfred Wegener hypothesized that the continents had been moving slowly around the Earth for million of years. Suggesting that millions of years ago the Earth was one super continent, Wegener proposed that the continents had moved apart and were still moving. Wegener had a lot of evidence to support his theories, however, he was unable to explain how the plates moved. Theoretically, Wegener provided logical interpretations for many geological phenomena. Why the coastlines of the continents seemed to match together like puzzle pieces? Why similar fossils of the same species were found on the different continents of Africa and South America? Why similar rock formations were found on separate continents and why glacial deposits from

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