Who Was Alfred Wegener and Why Was Wegener’s Theory of Continental Drift Not Accepted By Other Geologists?
In 1596, the Flemish mapmaker Abraham Ortelius proposed a strange theory. He suggested that all the continents of Earth were once joined together and had drifted apart over the course of time due to earthquakes and floods. He offered no evidence other than that the coastlines of Africa and South America seemed to fit together li
