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.
In the 1960's, however, geologists discovered that the ocean floors had been spreading, thus influencing the shapes and sizes of the continents. This new theory, called plate tectonics, provided a mechanism that made sense in physical terms to account for Wegener's idea of continental drift.lfred Wegener, who was educated to be a meteorologist and an Arctic climatologist, insisted that his theory was correct because of the evidence he saw. To support his ideas about continental drift, Wegener pointed to the similarities in the fossils of the southern continents.