Use the Internet information linked below to compile a timeline of events and people who
have helped formulate the theories of Continental Drift and Plate Tectonics such as:
1.
Alfred Wegener (1910-1920)
2.
Arthur Holmes (1930's)
3.
Harry Hess (1950-1960)
Alfred Wegener http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/databank/entries/bowege.html
Wegener proposes idea of continental drift 1912-http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/databank/entries/do12we.html
Arthur Holmes 1890 - 1965 -http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/databank/entries/boholm.html
Hess proposes sea-floor
spreading 1960
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/databank/entries/do62se.html
Harry Hess 1906 – 1969- http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/databank/entries/bohess.html
Sea-Floor Spreading – Hess & Dietz http://volcano.und.edu/vwdocs/vwlessons/plate_tectonics/part8.html
Subduction – where does the crust go? http://volcano.und.edu/vwdocs/vwlessons/plate_tectonics/part10.html
The Birth of plate Tectonics
http://volcano.und.edu/vwdocs/vwlessons/plate_tectonics/part11.html