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continental drift

GeoTalk: meet Megan Holdt, researcher of mantle dynamics & Geodynamics ECS Representative!

December 15, 2023
GeoTalk: meet Megan Holdt, researcher of mantle dynamics & Geodynamics ECS Representative!

Hello Megan! Welcome to GeoTalk. Could you tell our readers a little bit about yourself and your background? Hi Simon, thank you for inviting me to GeoTalk! I am originally from Australia and studied geology and geophysics at the University of Sydney. After I finished my undergraduate degree, I worked as an earth scientist for almost seven years. I really enjoyed my time in industry, but I felt th ...[Read More]

The theory of continental drift and how it changed the geosciences forever

November 4, 2022
The theory of continental drift and how it changed the geosciences forever
John Clemens (from imaggeo.egu.eu)

German scientist Alfred Wegener spent most of his life defending a shocking theory: that all the world’s continents were once part of the same land mass before they drifted away. For many years after he passed, his theory continued to be shunned, ridiculed, and labelled as pseudoscience. And then, several decades later, geologists began to find more and more proof to support his continental drift ...[Read More]