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Alfred Wegener published his seminal paper on continental drift in 1912 which proposed that the continents were once joined together and have since drifted apart. This was a revolutionary idea that contradicted prevailing theories at the time. Wegener noticed striking similarities between continents on opposite sides of the Atlantic and proposed that they were once joined together before breaking apart due to horizontal forces. His theory of continental drift took months to develop but was initially rejecte
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- Juan
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- EN