Cockapoo. Height:10-15 inchesWeight:6-20 poundsLifespan:10-12 yearsGroup:Not ApplicableBest suited for:Families with children, singles and seniors, apartments, houses with/without yardsTemperament:Sweet, loving, playful, affectionateComparable Breed:Cocker Spaniel, Poodle.
The theory of continental drift was not accepted for many years. One problem was that a plausible driving force was missing. A second problem was that Wegener's estimate of the velocity of continental motion, 250 cm/year, was implausibly high.(The currently accepted rate for the separation of the Americas from Europe and Africa is about 2.5 cm/year). And it did not help that Wegener was not a geologist.s late as 1953 â just five years before Carey introduced the theory of plate tectonics â the theory of continental drift was rejected by the physicist Scheidegger on the following grounds.
The reaction to Alfred Wegener's Continental Drift Theory demonstrates that new ideas threaten the establishment, regardless of the century. Alfred Wegener was the scientist who proposed the Continental Drift Theory in the early twentieth century.Simply put, his hypothesis proposed that the continents had once been joined, and over time had drifted apart.egener did not even present Continental Drift as a proven theory. He knew he would need more support to convince others. His immediate goal was to have the concept openly discussed. These modest goals did not spare him.