Yount L. Alfred Wegener: Creator of the Continental Drift Theory

Chelsea House Pub., 2009. - 160 p.Alfred Wegener recounts the life and work of the notable German meteorologist whose groundbreaking theory of continental displacement, later called continental drift, revolutionized the 18th- and 19th-century observations about the development of Earth that were embraced by his contemporary geologist peers. The book includes information on how Wegener reached his conclusions - from how the continents formed to what causes earthquakes and how Earth's surface continues to change - and how his theory of continental drift would not be generally accepted until well after his death in 1930.
Alfred Wegener includes more than 30 photographs and line illustrations, a glossary, a chronology, a list of print and Internet resources, and an index.