(ËvÉr bÉl) adj. 1. of or consisting of words: verbal ability. 2. spoken rather than written; oral: verbal communication. 3. concerned with words only, rather than with the ideas, facts, or realities expressed: a purely verbal distinction. 4. corresponding word for word; verbatim: a verbal translation.
Life is the process that resolves these disequilibria.. The water world theory suggests that the warm, alkaline hydrothermal vents maintained an unbalanced state with respect to the surrounding ancient, acidic ocean - one that could have created two chemical imbalances. The first was a proton gradient, where hydrogen ions were concentrated more on the outside of the vent's chimneys.
He presented his theory in 1912, after finding identical fossils on land separated by the Atlantic Ocean. His 1915 book, âThe Origin of Continents and Oceans, outlined his theory in detail.Wegener was not the first to suggest that the continents were once connected, but he was the first to present evidence of how the drift happened.