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The 26 pages that link to Alfred Wegener, each with the reason it gives.

• Plate tectonicsRelated: The theory's founding figure, ridiculed in his lifetime and vindicated decades later.

• Atlantic OceanRelated: The fit of Atlantic-facing continental margins helped support his drift argument.

• BiogeographyRelated: Biogeographic distributions were among the evidence he marshaled for drifting continents.

• PangaeaRelated: He proposed the supercontinent decades before a mechanism could explain it.

• PaleogeneRelated: Paleogene continental positions and fossil distributions later informed plate-tectonic reconstructions.

• Continental driftRelated: The lone author of the theory, whose career outside geology shaped its reception.

• Mid-Atlantic RidgeRelated: The ridge gave drift a mechanism: continents ride apart as crust forms between them.

• Structural geologyRelated: Continental drift offered a large-scale explanation for matching structures across continents.

• Tectonic plateRelated: His proposal anticipated plate motion but lacked an accepted mechanism.

• Supercontinent cycleRelated: His Pangaea reconstruction supplied the founding observation for the cycle.

• GlossopterisRelated: He used Glossopteris fossils on separated southern continents to support continental drift.

• Harry HessRelated: Wegener’s continental-drift hypothesis posed the question Hess’s seafloor-spreading model later helped explain.

• Arthur HolmesRelated: Holmes supported Wegener’s drift hypothesis while addressing its missing physical explanation.

• History of geologyRelated: His proposal met resistance before later evidence reshaped geological theory.

• Earth scienceRelated: His hypothesis connected continents despite lacking an accepted mechanism at the time.

• J. Tuzo WilsonRelated: Wilson’s moving-plate synthesis built on the question Wegener had raised.

• Marine geologyCompared with: His hypothesis preceded the ocean-floor evidence that later established plate tectonics.

• Harold JeffreysCompared with: Wegener proposed continental drift; Jeffreys rejected its proposed physical mechanisms.

• Weddell SeaRelated: He died during a 1930 expedition to the inland ice bordering the Weddell Sea.

• MesosaurusRelated: Wegener cited the matching Mesosaurus fossil record as evidence for continental movement.

• John Tuzo WilsonRelated: Wegener’s proposal posed the problem that Wilson’s generation sought to explain with a physical plate system.

• Wladimir KöppenRelated: Wegener was Köppen’s son-in-law and a fellow figure in German climate and Earth science.

• GeologistRelated: His proposal challenged fixed-continent geology and anticipated plate tectonics.

• Expanding EarthRelated: Wegener's evidence for shifting continents helped motivate later explanations, including Earth expansion.

• GeodynamicsRelated: His proposal made large-scale movement of continents a central geodynamic problem.

• History of geophysicsRelated: His proposal challenged fixed-continent assumptions before a physical mechanism was established.