continental drift
Alfred Wegener
early evidence:
fit of continents
fit of mountain ranges
fit of faults
fit of lines of ore deposits
fit of glacial deposits
fit of coal deposits
fit of fossils
fit of layers of rock
convection
new evidence:
seafloor spreading
magnetic anomalies
magnetic reversals
seafloor topography
thickness of seafloor sediments
radioactive age dating
world-wide distribution pattern of earthquakes
photography of spreading ridges
plate margins
divergent boundaries
spreading ridge
convergent boudaries
subduction (Benioff) zone
oceanic crust
continental crust
trench
partial melting
island arcs
transform boundaries
San Andreas fault
hot spot
mantle plume
Hawaii