Scott's second Antarctic expedition, complete with ponies and untested vehicles. Wegener was dismissed as a presumptive amateur by most geologists and geophysicists of his time. Of the few who ...

Alfred Wegener was born in Berlin in 1880, where his father was a minister who ran an orphanage. From an early age he took an interest in Greenland, and always walked, skated, and hiked as though ...

Alfred Wegener was one of those people. Though trained as an astronomer, he was a specialist on Greenland. He noticed that, based on nineteenth-century longitude determinations, it appeared that ...

Alfred Wegener InstituteThe new study was based ... it clearly differed from the layers above it,” said geologist and lead author of the study Johann Klages. “We had found a layer originally ...