-
1560
Abraham Ortelius
He was a Dutch cartographer.
He was the first person able to identify the real shape of the Atlanric Ocean -
Antonio Snider-Pellegrini
He published "La creation et ses mystere devoiles" with a picture showing South America and Africa combined -
Alfred Wegner
He was a paleontologist. He was the scientist that first proposed in "The origin of continents and oceans" a comprhensive theory of continental drift. -
Arthur Holmes
He understood that radiocativity decay was a huge source of heat in the Earth's interior, he supposed the presence of convective cells such engines of continental drift -
Hugo Benioff
He was a sesmiologist who remarked that the distributions of volcanoes and earthquakes is correlated and that the deepest earthquakes always occour at continents edges, drawing and inclined flat surface. -
Harry Hess and Robert Dietz
They coin the term seafloor spreading -
Tuzo Wilson
He develops two concept crucial to the plate tectonic theory: hot spots and transform faults -
MacKenzie and Palmer introduce the term plate tectonics