[Answer] Which statements describe evidence of continental drift? Check all that apply.

Which statements describe evidence of continental drift? Check all that apply.

Continental drift is the hypothesis that the Earth’s continents have moved over geologic time relative to each other thus appearing to have “drifted” across the ocean bed. The speculation that continents might have ‘drifted’ was first put forward by Abraham Ortelius in 1596.

The concept was independently and more fully developed by Alfred Wegener in 1912 but his hypothesis was rejected by many for lack of any motive mechanism. Arthur Holmes later proposed mantle convection for that mechanism. The idea of continental drift has since been subsumed by the theory of plate tectonics which explains that the continents move by riding on plates of the Earth’s lithosphere

The concept was independently and more fully developed by Alfred Wegener in 1912 but his hypothesis was rejected by many for lack of any motive mechanism. Arthur Holmes later proposed mantle convection for that mechanism. The idea of continental drift has since been subsumed by the theory of plate tectonics which explains that the continents move by riding on plates of the Earth’s lithosphere.

Paleomagnetic evidence both reversals and polar wandering data was instrumental in verifying the theories of continental drift and plate tectonics in the 1960s and 1970s. Some applications of paleomagnetic evidence to reconstruct histories of terranes have continued to arouse controversies. Paleomagnetic evidence is also used in constraining possible ages for rocks and processes and in …

Paleomagnetism – Wikipedia

Continental drift – Wikipedia

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