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explain wegners continental drift​

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Answered by javeed88
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Continental drift is the theory that the Earth's continents have moved over geologic time relative to each other, thus appearing to have "drifted" across the ocean bed. The speculation that continents might have 'drifted' was first put forward by Abraham Ortelius in 1596.

Answered by s2103614
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People used to think that the Earth was only a few thousand years old. They thought that the Earth never changed.

In 1912 a German scientist called Alfred Wegner suggested that millions of years ago all the land was one large continent. Over millions of years the land broke up and drifted apart. This idea is called continental drift.

His evidence for this idea was that:

  • shapes of the continents fit together
  • the types of rocks on the different continents match up where they fit together
  • the fossils on the different continents match up where they fit together.

Wegner could not explain how continental drift happened so not everyone believed his ideas.

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