Arthur Holmes was born on January 14th 1890 in Gateshead, United Kingdom. Holmes came from Northumbrian farming stock where he gained early interest in earth science at gateshead high school.He went to royal College of science and graduated by the age of twenty around 1910. Arthur Holmes did his share of helpful things he helped come up with Harnessing the Mechanics of Mantle Convection to the theory of the Continental Drift. Which contributed to understanding of Earth's Age. Holmes was the first to use uranium-lead Radioactive dating specifically to measure the age of a rock. (https://www.e-education.psu.edu/earth520/content/l2_p18.html). The scholarship funding that he received while in college was not enough money for him to live on . He ended up taking a job in Mozambique in South Africa prospecting(is the first stage of the geological analysis) minerals in 1911.He ended up not finding anything of value but he did end up getting a disease called malaria commonly carried by mosquitoes in tropical areas. As the days went on he began to pull through wich is good because he had a lot more science left in him. Again he could not pay his bill so he took a …show more content…
the power of convection Currents of heat and thermal expansion in the Earth's mantle, he suggested, could force the continents toward or away from one another, creating new ocean floor and building mountain ranges. (a theory later clarified by Harry Hess)(http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/databank/entries/bo.holm.html).Holmes was a widely respected geologist by then, but he was a few years too late to support Wegener (who died in 1930), and about 30 years too early to have hard data to back up his theory. Yet he had come very close to describing the modern view of Earth's plates and the dynamics between them.Holmes was professor of geology at the universities of Durham and Edinburgh until his death in