​Continental Drift

The movement of continents relative to each other across the Earth’s surface is known as continental drift. Although it was subject of speculation by numerous early works, the first comprehensive case of continental drift was presented by the German meteorologist, Alfred Wegener in 1912.

  • Wegener suggested that all the Earth’s land had once been joined into a single supercontinent, surrounded by an ocean. He called the land mass Pangaea (Pan = all + Gaea = Earth) and the surrounding ocean Panthalassa (Pan = all + Thalassa = Ocean).
  • Wegener thought Pangaea had broken into pieces during the Carboniferous period, since then, the ....
Do You Want to Read More?
Subscribe Now
To get access to detailed content
Buy November 2024 Issue

Already a Member? Login here

Take Annual Subscription and get the following Advantage
The annual members of the Civil Services Chronicle can read the monthly content of the magazine as well as the Chronicle magazine archives.
Readers can study all the material before the last six months of the Civil Services Chronicle monthly issue in the form of Chronicle magazine archives.
Be an Annual Subscriber

Geography Of India