Continental drift holds that the continents were once joined in a single landmass and have since drifted apart over geologic time to reach their current positions. It was controversial when proposed but later gave rise to plate tectonics.
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Source Continental Drift (Britannica)
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Source Alfred Wegener (Britannica)
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The matching-coastline, fossil-taxa and rock-strata evidence Wegener assembled is what the continental drift proposal itself was built to explain.
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1. Continental drift (Wikipedia)
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continental drift has subsequently been extensively validated and is incorporated into the science of plate tectonics
2. Continental Drift (Britannica)
Encyclopaedia Britannica- Proposed Year: 1912
- Proposed By: Alfred Wegener
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