LeBron James climbs to fourth on all-time playoff assists list. Cleveland Cavaliers forward LeBron James took over fourth place among the NBA's all-time playoff assists leaders during Friday's Game 3 against the Chicago Bulls. James entered Friday tied with Spurs point guard Tony Parker for sixth on the list with 1,059 career playoff assists.
Continental drift was a theory that explained how continents shift position on Earth's surface. Set forth in 1912 by Alfred Wegener, a geophysicist and meteorologist, continental drift also explained why look-alike animal and plant fossils, and similar rock formations, are found on different continents.
in plate tectonics: Alfred Wegener and the concept of continental drift. In 1912 German meteorologist Alfred Wegener, impressed by the similarity of the geography of the Atlantic coastlines, explicitly presented the concept of continental drift. Though plate tectonics is b... The first truly detailed and comprehensive theory of continental drift was proposed in 1912 by Alfred Wegener, a German meteorologist.