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Alfred Wegener Peninsula - English
URL: http://www.abc.se/~m8827/green/gletcher.htm

"The Alfred Wegener Peninsula, named after Alfred Wegener, the man that changed geology with his continental drift theory. Alfred Wegener perrished in a snow storm together with a man from Ukkusissat, on a trip from a camp up on the central ice cap, 1932. They met their faith 20 km from the Black Angel. Arctic is a harsh mistress."

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Alfred Wegener - English
URL: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/databank/entries/bowege.html

Short bio.

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Alfred Wegener and Johannes Georgi - English
URL: http://www.astro.ku.dk/~holger/ddirEGO/otterupavis.html

Johannes Georgi was the first scientist to observe in 1960 a jet contrail widening into a band of cirrus.

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Alfred Wegener - English
URL: http://pangaea.org/wegener.htm

Short bio. The Meteorologist Who Started a Revolution - By Patrick Hughes. Recommended Reading.

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Alfred Wegener (1880-1930) - English
URL: http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/history/wegener.html

Short biography, Modern reconstruction of Pangaea, ca. 255 million years ago, review of of continental drift.

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Alfred Lothar Wegener: Moving continents - English
URL: http://pubs.usgs.gov/publications/text/wegener.html

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"Perhaps Alfred Wegener's greatest contribution to the scientific world was his ability to weave seemingly dissimilar, unrelated facts into a theory, which was remarkably visionary for the time. Wegener was one of the first to realize that an understanding of how the Earth works required input and knowledge from all the earth sciences."

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Alfred Wegener - English
URL: http://www.turnpike.net/~mscott/wegener.htm

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At the turn of the 20th century, the prevailing view of the earth was that it was slowly cooling and contracting, and -- like the skin of a rotting fruit -- its surface was wrinkling to produce mountains and valleys. Noting the similarity between the west coast of Africa and the east coast of South America, Alfred Wegener disagreed, and concluded that earth's continents had at one time been joined in a single landmass, which he named Pangaea. He further claimed that as continents moved around and smashed into each other, they formed mountains. It was an audacious idea, and geologists bristled with hostility.

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Alfred Lothar Wegener - German
URL: http://www.niester.de/p_natwis/wegener/

Personen/Wissenschaft/Wegener. Themengebiet: Plattentektonik. Erdkunde: Themengebiet: Plattentektonik. Ursachen fuer die Kontinentaldrift.

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Alfred Wegener - German
URL: http://www.aw-stiftung.de/

Deshalb stellt sich die Alfred-Wegener-Stiftung die folgenden Aufgaben und Ziele: Fachübergreifende Förderung der Einheit der Geowissenschaften; Kontakte und Austausch mit Nachbarwissenschaften; Schaffen einer Anlaufstelle für geowissenschaftliche Belange; Vertretung der Geowissenschaften gegenüber Öffentlichkeit, Politik und Verwaltung; Verstärkung der Kontakte zwischen Geowissenschaften, Wirtschaft und Industrie; Vertretung der Geowissenschaften in hochschulpolitischen Fragen.

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