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madreJ [45]
3 years ago
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Discuss the theory of continental drift

Geography
1 answer:
Kamila [148]3 years ago
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The theory of the continental drift explained how the continents had shifted their original positions. Once all joined together, as a "Urkontinent." Many people thought it was the mountains making them sink, but then that was dismissed because continental rocks were too light to sink to the ocean floor. 
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