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1) Alfred Wegener first proposed the theory of continental drift in 1910 after noticing that the coastlines of South America and Africa seemed to fit together. 2) Wegener hypothesized that the continents were once joined together in a single landmass called Pangaea and have since drifted apart. 3) He provided three lines of evidence to support his theory: matching continental coastlines, matching fossil distributions between continents, and evidence that glaciation occurred in past climates inconsistent
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- Joshua Gabriel Rico
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- EN