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1910年的一天,德国青年魏格纳(A.L.Wegener,1880～1930年)躺在病床上,凝视墙上的一幅世界地图。他猛然发现,南美洲东海岸的轮廓和非洲西海岸的轮廓极为相似。例如,南美洲大陆的巴西海岸的凸出部分与隔海相望的非洲大陆几内亚湾的凹入部分遥相对应,如果把两者拼拢的话,能很好吻合。他想:“南美洲和非洲在很多年前也许是一个统一的大陆,后来才分裂漂移开来的。魏格纳是一名气象工作者,常远渡重洋作实地考察。1912年,当他第2次随丹麦考察队赴格陵兰考察时,开始注意收集有关地质构造、古生物
One day in 1910, the young German A.L. Wegener (1880–1930) was lying on a bed and staring at a world map on the wall. He suddenly discovered that the outline of the east coast of South America and the outline of the west coast of Africa are very similar. For example, the protruding part of the Brazilian coast of the South American continent corresponds to the concave part of the Gulf of Guinea on the African continent across the sea. If the two are combined together, it will be in good agreement. He thought: "South America and Africa may have been a unified continent many years ago, but later they drifted apart. Wegener was a meteorologist and Chang Yuan had crossed the ocean to make field trips. In 1912, when he During the second visit to Greenland with the Danish expedition team, he began to pay attention to the collection of relevant geological structures and paleontology.