Conference on Continental Drift
Issues:
  • What data does the hypothesis of continental drift explain? What does it fail to explain?
  • What is the quality and certainty of the current evidence for drift?
  • What alternative theories also explain the available data?
  • How would continents "drift"? (Is this essential to accepting Wegener's idea?)
  • How should we treat conflicting data, especially if from different disciplines or different geographical regions?

    • Harold Jeffreys
    G.G. Simpson
    Keith Runcorn
    S. Warren Carey
    Bruce Heezen

    Bill Menard
    Harry Hess
    Ron Mason
    Fred Vine
    Maurice Ewing

    Richard Doell
    Robert Dietz
    Gordon MacDonald
    Edward Bullard
    J. Tuzo Wilson