Continental drift Continental drift Continental drift is the theory that the Earth's continents have moved over geologic time relative to each other, thus appearing to have "drifted" across the ocean bed. The speculation that continents might have 'drifted' was first put forward by Abraham Ortelius in 1596. The concept was independently and more fully developed by Alfred Wegener in 1912, but his theory was rejected by many for lack of any motive mechanism. Arthur Holmes later proposed mantle convection for that mechanism. The idea of continental drift has since been subsumed by the theory of plate tectonics, which explains that the continents
Ice Age: Continental Drift accompanied by the short animated film "The Longest Daycare" featuring Maggie Simpson. As a promotion for "Ice Age: Continental Drift", Fox released two 3-minute short segments from the film, titled "Scrat's Continental Crack-up" and "Scrat's Continental Crack-up: Part 2". The first part premiered as a theatrical release attached to "Gulliver's Travels" in 2010, and it was released on-line on January 6, 2011, on iTunes Movie Trailers. The second part was released on November 16, 2011, on iTunes, and debuted in theatres with "". The first part shows how the Scrat's actions lead to split of the continents, while in the