1. Education
Das Wort des Tages
German Word of the Day

LISTEN (mp3)

die Kontinentalverschiebung  continental drift/shift

Der Deutsche Geophysiker Alfred Wegener entwickelte eine Theorie der Kontinentalverschiebung.
The German geophysicist Alfred Wegener (1880-1930) developed a theory of continental drift.

Related: der Kontinent continent, verschieben to shift, move, postpone, die Verschiebung shifting, movement, drift; smuggling

SEE > Famous Germans, Austrians, Swiss

BACK > Daily German: Word of the Day

MORE > English-German Glossaries

Subscribe to the Newsletter
Name
Email


German Chat

OUR GERMAN FORUMS

©2012 About.com. All rights reserved.

A part of The New York Times Company.