"Parting is such sweet sorrow!"                    "Frankly, my dear..."
 

This web page was composed during a COAST (Consortium for Oceanographic Activities for Students and Teachers) workshop by:

                                                                Brad DeVaughn - Ripley High School, Ripley, Mississippi
                                                                Cindy Wilson - Heflin Elementary School, Houston, Texas
                                                                Joy Walker - Eupora High School, Eupora, Mississippi
                                                                Melanie Murphy - Olive Branch High School, Olive Branch, Mississippi
 
       C-Drift is a collaborative effort to provide integrated activities on the subject of plate tectonics for elementary, middle, and high school teachers.  Plate tectonics provides an explanation for the theory of continental drift proposed in 1912 by Alfred Wegener, a German scientist.   He suggested that all of earth's land mass was once a large single supercontinent which he called Pangaea.  His theory helps explain how the continents moved into their present day position.