University in England produced a report,publisrongly suggesting t tionsory of rocks and tory of life. Dickson establis tion of tered abruptly and vigorously tt ten correlate ant events inbiological ory—tburst of tiny organisms t created t, t causes try to cically from time to time, but tting of ocean ridges .
At all events, plate tectonics not only explained t from France to Florida, for example—but also many of its internalactions. Eartion of island cions ofmountains, tself—tter t directly influenced by ts, as McPed,found tion t “th suddenly made sense.”
But only up to a point. tribution of continents in former times is muclyresolved t people outside geopextbooks give confident-looking representations of ancient landmasses imes based on conclusions t don’t altogetory of Life, species of plants andanimals from t ly o be w.
tline of Gond connecting Australia, Africa,Antarctica, and Sout on tribution of a genus ofancient tongue fern called Glossopteris, eris s of t ion to Gondroubling discrepancy inues to be—mostlyignored. Similarly a triassic reptile called Lystrosaurus arctica allto Asia, supporting tion betinents, but iturned up in Soutralia, inent at time.
tures t tectonics can’t explain. take Denver. It is, aseveryone kno rise is comparatively recent. of an ocean bottom, many t lo ts are not fractured or deformed in tes, and anyoo far from te edges to besusceptible to tions. It oraise a ruck at te end. Mysteriously and over millions of years, it appears tDenver oo, ion ofit a t any knoed tectonic activity. Australia, meaning and sinking. Over t100 million years as it ed nortos leading edge . It appears t Indonesia is very sloralia do. Notectonics can explain any of this.
Alfred egener never lived to see ed. On an expedition to Greenland in1930, out alone, on ieto c a supply drop. urned.
er, frozen to deat and liest, but about a yard closer to Northe day he died.
Einstein also failed to live long enougo see t