Talk:Alfred Wegener
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he had 10 kids — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.172.206.214 (talk) 14:47, April 27, 2021 (UTC)
Citation for Charles Schuchert's comment
We have a quote attributed to Charles Schuchert without a citation:
During this vast time [of the split of Pangea], the sea waves have been continuously pounding against Africa and Brazil and in many places rivers have been bringing into the ocean great amounts of eroded material, yet everywhere the geographic shorelines are said to have remained practically unchanged! It apparently makes no difference to Wegener how hard or how soft are the rocks of these shorelines, what are their geological structures that might aid or retard land or marine erosion, how often the strand lines have been elevated or depressed, and how far peneplanation has gone on during each period of continental stability. Furthermore, sea level in itself has not been constant, especially during the Pleistocene, when the lands were covered by millions of square miles of ice made from water subtracted out of the oceans. In the equatorial regions, this level fluctuated three times during the Pleistocene, and during each period of ice accumulation, the sea level sank about 250 feet [75 m].[citation needed]
This quote is a subset of a passage used in the paper Alfred Wegener's reconstruction of Pangea. (DOI link) The paper cites the original source as:
Schuchert, C. (1928). The hypothesis of continental displacement. In van Waterschoot van der Gracht, W.A.J.M. (Ed.), Theory of continental drift (pp. 104–144). Tulsa, OK: American Association of Petroleum Geologists. (Link to original source)
Unfortunately, I cannot access the original paper by Schuchert to verify this quote independently. Anon--maus (talk) 17:00, 5 December 2024 (UTC)
Incorrect information
Wegener was NOT a geologist. In fact, geologists hated him. 100.18.28.97 (talk) 23:40, 6 February 2025 (UTC)
Semi-protected edit request on 27 April 2025
Template:Edit semi-protected In the World War I section the word geography is repeated twice:
His brother Kurt remarked that Alfred Wegener's motivation was to "reestablish the connection between geophysics on the one hand and geography and geology on the other, which had become completely ruptured because of the specialized development of these branches of science."
Also Denmark is spelled "Danmark" in the Second Greenland Expedition text. 68.162.214.184 (talk) 09:36, 27 April 2025 (UTC)
File:X mark.svg Not done The word "geography" occurs once in the article's text (and as a part of a book title in a source reference citation). It is not repeated in the World War I section. Geophysics, geography and geology are three different subjects. The "Danmark Expedition" is a legitimate alternative name for the expedition (used by various reliable sources). It is the name of the ship used in the expedition. GeoWriter (talk) 13:39, 27 April 2025 (UTC)
