SSC Selection Post 2022 PYQ — Question 37

The correct answer is Option 4 i.e. Alfred Wegener.

In 1915, the groundbreaking book 'The Origin of Continents and Oceans' (Die Entstehung der Kontinente und Ozeane) was written and published by the German meteorologist, geophysicist, and polar researcher Alfred Wegener.In this work, Wegener proposed his revolutionary theory of continental drift. He suggested that Earth's continents were once joined together in a single supercontinent called Pangaea, which subsequently broke apart, with the fragments slowly drifting to their current positions. While his theory lacked a plausible mechanism for the movement during his lifetime, it laid the essential foundation for the later development of the theory of plate tectonics.