Alfred Wegner - Ahead of his Time

Alfred Wegner was an amazingly gifted person, who came up with the Theory of Continental Drift.
It took a long time for the scientific community to catch up to his view, but by the 1960's science came round to validating his ideas.

Some of the evidence that backs up Alfred comes from find the ages of rock layers. This can be done with Absolute & Relative Dating methods.

So how does Absolute Dating (aka Radio Carbon) work? DNews has us covered there.