Question

4. What are the evidences gathered by Alfred Wegener to support his Continental Drift Theory?

Answer 1

Answer:

Alfred Wegener, in the first three decades of this century, and DuToit in the 1920s and 1930s gathered evidence that the continents had moved. They based their idea of continental drift on several lines of evidence: fit of the continents, paleoclimate indicators, truncated geologic features, and fossils.

Answer 2

• As we know that the theory of Continental Drift was proposed by Alfred Wegener.

• Alfred Wegener published the origin of continents and oceans.

• He was a polar researcher, geophysicist.

• On several lines of evidence, he based their idea.

• i.e. Paleoclimate indicators, fit of the continents, fossils, and truncated geological features.