De Wegener à la tectonique des plaques : sept fois sept ans de réflexion

• Main Author: Lemoine, Marcel
• Other Authors: Comité français d'histoire de la géologie (COFRHIGEO)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: French
• Published: HAL CCSD 2004
• Subjects: continental drift; plate tectonics; radioactivity; intellectual comfort; XXth century; dérive des continents; tectonique des plaques; radioactivité; confort intellectuel; XXe siècle; geo; litt; Willis; South Atlantic Ocean
• Online Access: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00914288/file/2004_06.pdf; https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00914288

International audience As early as 1913, using interdisciplinary arguments, Alfred Wegener showed that, from disruption of Pangaea (the singlecontinent existing at the end of the Palaeozoic), continental drift occurred (e.g. as South America and Africa becameseparated by the South Atlantic ocean). T...