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Alfred Wegener published The Origin of Continents and Oceans pertaining to continental drift. He used fossils that matched across the seas, present day organisms with a wide distribution, rock types that match from one continent to another, structures that match, and ancient climates.

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he used fossils, plants, mountain ranges, and shapes of the continents to help support his idea, but due to not being able to describe how the continents moved, his theory was rejected

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