ALFRED WEGENER & HARRY HESS - Big History Project

The theory was that they later sunk into the ocean. Wegener wanted to end that theory. He also disputed the theory of the time that mountains formed like wrinkles on the skin of a drying apple. Instead, he claimed that mountains formed when the edges of drifting continents collided and crumpled. Later studies backed up Wegener’s research. ................
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