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Thu 04 Apr 2003Joining the dots between continents
Under the Microscope/Dr William Reville: Alfred Lothar Wegener died in November 1930 on a meteorological expedition to Greenland, his bold theory of continental drift rejected by the scientific community.
Thirty years after his untimely death, at the age of 50, Wegener's ideas became the catalyst and framework for the development of plate tectonics, one of the most important of geological theories. Plate tectonics is as important to the earth sciences as the theory of evolution is to the life sciences.
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