Continental drift
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title:
Continental drift
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Continental drift is the theory, originating in the early 20th century, that Earth's continents move or drift relative to each other over geologic time. The theory 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 the Earth's lithosphere. The speculation that continents might have "drifted" was first put forward by Abraham Ortelius in 1596. A pioneer of the modern view of mobi
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Movement of Earth's continents relative to each other
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continental_drift
date created:
2001-10-19T19:29:40Z
date modified:
2024-08-29T02:12:26Z
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