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salantis [7]
3 years ago
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I'm very confused on this home work question How did magnetism 'drive' the theory of plate tectonics?

Physics
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kondor19780726 [428]3 years ago
3 0
When Alfred Wegener proposed the idea the continents could move, other scientists scoffed. ... Plate tectonics -- the concept the continents are rockplates moving on the magma underneath -- is now accepted.Magnetism is part of the evidence forplate tectonic theory.
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