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 p
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.