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Continental Drift is the name of a theory, developed by German meteorologist and geologist Alfred Wegener (1880-1930), asserting that parts of the earth's crust are slowly drifting on top of a liquid core. Wegener hypothesized that 200 million years ago, the earth was comprised of one great supercontinent, containing all of earth's land masses. He called the supercontinent "Pangaea," which means "all the land" in Greek. According to Wegener, Pangaea broke apart during the period bounded by the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods, to the point where the super land mass was finally separated into the distinct land masses we now recognize as modern-day continents. Wegener's theory of continental drift is published in his 1915 work entitled, "On the Origin of the Continents and Oceans."
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∙ 10y agoActually, as far as I'm concerned, i don't think there is such thing as "continental drift in Biology". Even if continental drift is to be related to life, it should be in form of fossil studies, and that would preferably be Paleontology not Biology.
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∙ 13y agothe theory that continents move a little bit each year, moving farther and farther away from each other
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∙ 11y agoContinental drift occurs under the earth's crust by convection currents in the mantle which drives.
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∙ 6y agoIt refers to the gradual movement of the continents across the Earth's surface through geological time
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