Fathers of Tectonic Plates

By Shimaster
  • Period: Apr 14, 1527 to

    Abraham Ortelius's

  • Jan 1, 1565

    Ortelius makes a 2 sheet map of Egypt

  • Jan 1, 1567

    Ortelius makes a 8 sheet map of Asia

  • Jan 1, 1568

    Ortelius makes a map plan of the Brittenburg Castle on the coast of the Netherlands

  • Jan 1, 1570

    Ortelius's "Theatrum Orbis Terrarum" gets published

    This is the first ever world atlas that got published in 42 different editions and 7 languages
  • Jan 1, 1573

    Additamentum Theatri Orbis Terrarum

    Ortelius publishes 17 maps, 4 more in his later life of the places around him
  • Jan 1, 1579

    Nomenclator Ptolemaicus

    Ortelius started his Paregon, which is a series of maps showing world history, that are sometimes sacred.
  • Period: to

    Alfred Wegener's

  • Period: to

    Harry Hess

  • Wegener advocated for the theory of the Continental Drift

  • Wegener Publishes "The Origin of Continents and Oceans,"

    This book is basically about his theory on continental drift.

  • Wegener's theory is criticized

  • Wegener goes on an expedition

  • Hess got called to reexamine his work while at sea.

    Tow scientits, Maurice Ewing and Bruce Heezen, found out on the Great Global Rift, which is a rift running on the Mid-Oceanic Ridge, so they called on Hess to reexamine his work when he wa at sea.

  • Hess made a contribution

    Hess made a contribution in which he theorized that the Earth's crust moved away from Oceanic Ridges

  • Wegener's idea got accepted on the Continental Drift

  • Hess makes an important hypothesis of plate tectonics

    Hess theorized that the sea floor was spreading from the rift, where hot magma seeps up.

  • "HIstory of Ocean and Basins"

    Hess's report on sea floor spreading and continental drifts got published.

  • Pres. Kennedy appoints Hess to chair the Science Board