Why Wegner Was Not Insane

German meteorologist, geophysicist and polar researcher, Alfred Wegener, made an incredible discovery and his ideas were shot down by all important people in his job industry. In the heat of attempting to change how scientists & the public thought about life, he began to search for many pieces of evidence to prove something, not only to the world, but to himself. I will be naming even more in the following text to help people better comprehend why Wegner was not insane and how reliable his work is to this very day.

Wegener was convinced that all of Earth’s continents were once part of an enormous, single landmass called Pangaea. To describe continental drift & pangea, Wegner used geology, biology, and ecology; even though he was initially trained as an astronomer. Pangaea existed about 240 million
The plates maintain their movement through a process called plate tectonics. This means that to this very day, continents are still moving! Processes such as seafloor spreading, rift valley formation, and subduction were the main geologic forces behind what Wegener recognized as continental drift.
Wegener published a book named ‘The Origin of Continents and Oceans’ in 1915, which outlined his theory of Continental Drift even more. Even though he had a lot of evidence to support the theory, many scientists were skeptical about his work. Although, he had trouble explaining himself to the public, so it took him almost half a century to begin solving his problem of no one believing him. Nevertheless, Wegener supported his Continental Drift idea with 5 lines of evidence that he finally gathered after many years. But, Wegener did do many other things, aside from dedicating his life to searching pieces of evidence to prove himself. Wegner was a member of four expeditions to Greenland. Yet, tragically, as he was visiting Greenland in 1930, he dies shortly after on his fiftieth