Title

Diagram of the Earth during the Carboniferous period, 1922. Artist: Unknown

Caption

Diagram of the Earth during the Carboniferous period, 1922. Land is represented by the unshaded areas, deep sea by the areas shaded with diagonal lines and shallow water with horizontal lines. From an article by Alfred Wegener (1880-1930) on his theory of Continental Drift published in Discovery, London, 1922. Wegener postulated that the continents had not always occupied their present locations, but had moved across the Earth's surface over geological history. Wegener's theory was not widely accepted until the 1950s, but is today explained by the theory of Plate Tectonics.
Oxford Science Archive

Date

1922

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images

Reference

HRM19B64_103

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

29,9Mb (1,5Mb) / 15,4in x 7,5in / 4633 x 2258 (300dpi)

Keywords

Germany ocean sea time German map world country science geology Earth movement continent solar system astronomy geography change location century concept twenties B&W MONOCHROME black & white black and white B W 1920s 20th century geophysics plate tectonics Oxford Science Archive Carboniferous continental drift geographical feature geological period time and motion map Unknown Alfred Lothar Alfred Wegener Wegener Alfred Lothar Wegener Alfred Wegener map