This theory was developed in 1912 by the German meteorologist Alfred Wegener,  and the findings of Eduard Suess helped support it. Suess concluded, mainly as a  result of fossil evidence, that a land mass containing several present continents  existed in the south in the Jurassic period. This mass was named Gondwanaland, and  broke apart into smaller plates according to a related theory developed in the 1960's.  FTP, name this theory related to plate tectonics which stat
This theory was developed in 1912 by the German meteorologist Alfred Wegener,  and the findings of Eduard Suess helped support it. Suess concluded, mainly as a  result of fossil evidence, that a land mass containing several present continents  existed in the south in the Jurassic period. This mass was named Gondwanaland, and  broke apart into smaller plates according to a related theory developed in the 1960's.  FTP, name this theory related to plate tectonics which states that continents float  atop a liquid layer of the earth.
This theory was developed in 1912 by the German meteorologist Alfred Wegener,  and the findings of Eduard Suess helped support it.