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Dutch map maker first mentioned the idea of continental drift in his publication. His theory suggested that America was “torn away from Europe and Africa…by earthquakes and floods”
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Notcied that the outlines of the continents appeared as though they could fit together
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The "Uniformitarian Principle", based on the concept of geollogical forms and processes acting similar to the past as it did in the present
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Idea that the land was once joined
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Created two maps demonstrating how the American and African continents may once have fit together and then separated.
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Published his continental drift theory - that Earth’s surface has changed over time and continents were once joined together (based on fossil evidence of similar species found on continents that are now separated)