Geological evidence for Gondwana (du Toit)
Pruebas geológicas de Gondwana (Du Toit)
- Date
- 1927 · confidence high
- Place
- Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
- Credited to
- Alexander du Toit
- People
- 👤 Alexander du Toit1878–1948
- Field
- Cosmos & Earth
What was discovered
He compared the strata, glaciations and fossils of the Karoo with those of South America and showed that they fitted together like pieces of a single continent. He was the leading advocate of continental drift when almost no one accepted it.
A Geological Comparison of South America with South Africa (1927) and Our Wandering Continents (1937).
What it led to
- the Gondwana and Laurasia hypothesis
- an empirical basis for the later acceptance of plate tectonics
- intercontinental stratigraphic correlation