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1910年的一天,魏格纳因病住院,他在百无聊赖地观望病房墙壁上的世界地图时,突然发现:大西洋的轮廓是相对应的。特别是巴西东端的突出部竟和非洲西岸呈直角凹进的几内亚湾非常吻合。于是他想,当年的非洲大陆和南美大陆一定是连在一起的。只是由于漂移破裂后而最后分开了。但在当时,魏格纳无法证明自己的这个想法是正确的,只是在一年以后从别人的论文里知道了大西洋两岸的非洲和美洲有相同的陆生动物化石时,他才能肯定自己的发现,并于1912年在德国地质协会上正式提出“大陆漂移学说”。魏格纳伟大的发现来源于运用了科学“移植思维”。
One day in 1910, Wegener was hospitalized because of illness. When he bored and looked at the map of the world on the wall of the ward, he suddenly discovered that the contours of the Atlantic Ocean corresponded. In particular, the protruding part of the eastern end of Brazil is in good agreement with the Gulf of Guinea where the African West Bank is recessed at right angles. So he thought that the African continent and the South American continent must have been linked together. It was only separated after the drift broke. But at that time, Wegener couldn’t prove that his own idea was correct, but only after one year learned from other people’s papers that Africa and the Americas on both sides of the Atlantic had the same terrestrial animal fossils, he could confirm his discovery. In 1912, the “Drift Theory of the Mainland” was formally proposed at the Geological Association of Germany. Wigner’s great discovery comes from the use of scientific “transplantation thinking”.