摘要：One hundred years ago last January, a rising young German meteorologist presented a startling new vision of crustal history at a meeting of the recently founded Geological Associa- tion (Geologische Vereinigung) in Frank- furt. The talk did not bring pleasure to its listeners. Not yet 32, Alfred Wegen- er had already published in several branches of meteorology and his admired textbook, Thermodynamics of the Atmosphere (Wegener 1911) showed him to be unusually skilled at synthesis. But he was unknown in geology and had only been seriously reading the geolog- ical literature for about four months (Fritscher 2002).
