WH54 Fachwortlexikon
Lernwerkstatt Aachen GbR
Mathematik | Physik | Chemie


Kontinentalverschiebung


... German for => continental drift


Kontinentalverschiebung here means the theory (now proven) that the continents like Africa, South-America, Australia move around on the globe with a speed of up to 20 centimetres every year. That theory was fully stated by Alfred Wegener in 1915 but only accepted in the 1950ies.





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