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Continental Drift
Were the continents of this planet always situated the way they are today? Could there have been one supercontinent that over time broke off into the continents we know now? Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines Pangaea as a hypothetical land area believed to have once connected the landmasses of the southern hemisphere with those of the northern hemisphere (Definition of Pangaea). This theory, discovered by Alfred Wegener, was known as the drift theory. Wegener used the fit of the continents, the distribution of fossils, a similar sequence of rocks at numerous locations, ancient climates, and the apparent wandering of the Earth's Polar Regions to support his idea (Evidence Supporting Continental Drift).
In 1912 Wegener first proposed the theory of continental drift, which states that parts of the Earth's crust slowly drift atop a liquid core. He believed that over 200 million years ago the continents had formed a single mass, which he named Pangaea, meaning "all......

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