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1) Alfred Wegener first proposed the theory of continental drift in 1915, suggesting that approximately 200 million years ago, all the continents were part of a single landmass called Pangaea that later broke apart. 2) Wegener provided various lines of evidence from geography, geology, paleontology, geophysics, and paleoclimatology to support his theory, however it was initially rejected due to the lack of a proposed mechanism for continental movement. 3) In the 1960s, seafloor spreading and plate tecton
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- Sarah Ruggieri
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