Plate tectonics is the name for the process that forms Earth's features. Plates spread apart, bump together, slide under one another, or slide past each other. Forces on the surface also change the land. The movement of wind and water breaks rock down, and erosion wears Earth's surface away.
C) They believed Earth to be much younger than current estimates.
Explanation:
The proponents of the 18 and the 17th centuries believed that the earth was shaped by a strong and a violent forces such as the erosion that created the earth's geologic features and had a recent origin.
