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Had a huge collection of atlases and was apart of the continential drift theroy.
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He established geology and is known as the father of modern geologists.
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Seafloor Spreading
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He hypothesized that the continents once fit together, called continental drift.
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Deep earthquakes or today known as the Wadati-Benioff zone a reigion of intermidiate and deep earthquake zones along oceanic tranches
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He helped form the theory of continental drift by comparing the continents of Africa to South America.
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His theroy was on plate techtonics and he opposed continential drift.
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Conducted the theroy of sea floor spreading.
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He studied plate tectonics and it was important because it tied into continential drift and the seafloor spreading
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Mid Atlantic Rift. Continential drift.
