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FinnZ [79.3K]
3 years ago
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Continental drift and plate tectonics are both theories but only plate tectonics is accepted as fact by the scientific community

. Explain why plate tectonics is considered a scientific fact and why continental drift is not.
Geography
1 answer:
Arte-miy333 [17]3 years ago
5 0
<span>Wegener proposed the continental drift theory, and provided scientific evidences for such, but couldn't explain the mechanism or processes behind the movement of continents. It wasn't until the mid-twentieth century with the discovery of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge that the processes causing plate movements began to be understood and led to the science of plate tectonics. </span>
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