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Plate Tectonics Timeline

Be a Scientific Historian!

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