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Continental Drift - National Geographic Society
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WEBOct 19, 2023 · Continental drift describes one of the earliest ways geologists thought continents moved over time. Today, the theory of continental drift has been replaced by the science of plate tectonics. The theory of continental drift is most associated with the scientist Alfred Wegener.

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Continental drift | Definition, Evidence, Diagram, & Facts
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WEBApr 5, 2024 · Continental drift, large-scale horizontal movement of continents relative to one another and to the ocean basins during one or more episodes of geologic time. This concept was an important precursor to the development of the theory of plate tectonics, which incorporates it.

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Continental drift - Wikipedia
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WEBContinental drift is the hypothesis, originating in the early 20th century, that Earth's continents move or drift relative to each other over geologic time. The hypothesis of continental drift has since been validated and incorporated into the science of plate tectonics , which studies the movement of the continents as they ride on plates of ...

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Continental Drift: The groundbreaking theory of moving continents
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WEBDec 14, 2021 · Continental drift was a revolutionary theory explaining that continents shift position on Earth's surface. The theory was proposed by geophysicist and meteorologist Alfred Wegener in 1912, but...

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5.5: Continental Drift - Geosciences LibreTexts
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WEBAlthough the evidence for continental drift was extremely strong, scientists rejected the idea because no mechanism for how solid continents could move around on the solid earth was developed. The discovery of apparent polar wander renewed scientists interest in …

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continental drift summary | Britannica
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WEBcontinental drift, Large-scale movements of continents over the course of geologic time. The first complete theory of continental drift was proposed in 1912 by Alfred Wegener, who postulated that a single supercontinent, which he called Pangea , fragmented late in the Triassic Period (approximately 250–200 million years ago) and that the ...

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What Is Continental Drift Theory? - ThoughtCo
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WEBJul 24, 2019 · Continental drift was a revolutionary scientific theory developed in the years 1908-1912 by Alfred Wegener (1880-1930), a German meteorologist, climatologist, and geophysicist, that put forth the hypothesis that the continents had all originally been a part of one enormous landmass or supercontinent about 240 million years ago before breaking ...

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15.1: Plate Tectonics and Continental Drift - Geosciences LibreTexts
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WEBFeb 19, 2022 · Continental drift describes the movements of continents over the Earth's surface.

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5.4: Theory of Continental Drift - Geosciences LibreTexts
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WEBThe continental drift hypothesis was developed in the early part of the 20th century, mostly by Alfred Wegener. Wegener said that continents move around on Earth’s surface and that they were once joined together as a single supercontinent.

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Travel Through Deep Time With This Interactive Earth
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WEBSep 30, 2014 · Explore key moments in Earth’s transformative history as continents drift and climate fluctuates over 4.6 billion years.

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