History_of_Geology on Nostr: But Wegener’s work popularized the idea of mobile continents among the scientific ...

But Wegener’s work popularized the idea of mobile continents among the scientific community and the public.

Continental Drift theory is in many important aspects erroneous. In reality not the single continents move, but plates of Earth's crust. The driving forces comes from within the planet, like convection currents and slab pull, not from the outside.

Decades later his legacy will pave the way for a new kind of theory – modern plate tectonics 🌍