CONTINENTAL DRIFT THEORY

• Continental Drift Theory

  proposed by Alfred Wegener in 1912

  • suggests that continents are once united in a supercontinent called Pangaea but drifted apart until they arrived at their relative position right now
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  Animal and plant fossils in rocks found on the shores of different continents.
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  Relative complementary fit of the continents with each other lke puzzles.
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  Glacial tillites in Africa which suggest that the continent move from the polar region to the equatorial region