IN ONE OF  professional acts before  Einstein e a sbut gloo a book by a geologist named Citled Earting Crust: A Key to Some Basic Problems of Earteady demolition of t continents ion. In a tone t all but invited to join olerant c a fe correspondence in sain continents.” It  Sout be fitted toget is evenclaimed t rock formations on opposite sides of tlantic match.”

    Mr. ions, noting t ts K. E. Casterand J. C. Mendes ensive fieldlantic and ablision t no sucies existed. Goodness knocropsMessrs. Caster and Mendes , beacuse in fact many of tions onbotlanticare t just very similar but the same.

    t an idea t fles of o  propounded in 1908 by an amateur Americangeologist named Frank Bursley taylor. taylor came from a raints to pursue unconventional lines of inquiry. ruck by ty in slines of Africa andSoution  tinents ed—presciently as it turned out—t togetinents could  up tain co producemucoo crackpot to merit seriousattention.

    In Germany, aylor’s idea ively appropriated, by at named Alfred egener, a meteorologist at ty of Marburg. egenerinvestigated t and fossil anomalies t did not fit comfortably into tandardmodel of Eartory and realized t very little of it made sense if conventionallyinterpreted. Animal fossils repeatedly turned up on opposite sides of oceans t oo o so Australia?

    ical snails turn up in Scandinavia and Ne,did one account for coal seams and otropical remnants in frigid spots likeSpitsbergen, four  someed therefrom warmer climes?

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