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Alfred Wegener (born November 1, 1880, Berlin, Germany and died November 1930, Greenland) he was a German Meteorologist and geophysicist who formulated the first complete statement of the continental drift hypothesis.

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The theory where at one point in time, all of the continents were joined together in one large landmass to splitting apart and drifting into their current positions (the 7 continents) The continental drift theory states the movement of tectonic plates.

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TOPOGRAPHIC EVIDENCE

- The"GOOD FIT" suggested that like neighboring pieces of jigsaw puzzle , the continents were once connected

FOSSIL CORRELATION

- Fossils are traces and remains of organism that lived in pre-historic times. One of Wegener's example is the remains of Mesosaurus.

- Before Pangea broke apart, similar layers of rocks were formed in Antarctica, Australia, South America, Africa and India. Glossopteris fossils were found in the rocks on each continent.

ROCK FORMATIONS

- Rocks and fossils in the continents located in the southern hemisphere exhibit identical pattern known as "Gondwana Sequence". These rocks were of the same age and type.

-US Appalachian Mountains are similar to Greenland

PALEOCLIMATIC EVIDENCE

- Wegener considered as evidence the glacial till deposits in the northern and southern latitudes.

- It was said that the Earth's climate has not changed, instead the positions of the continents have changed.