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There are many proofs and they are as convincing as they are. That is the style of Alfred Wegener. Although he always provided good, reliable and convincing evidences, he was not a good speaker.

A few might be that the fossils of the same species of dinosaurs were found on different continents, which are separated by seas and oceans. No dinosaur could have swam that far. Therefore, he concluded that there was once a where all of the current continents are joined together. There must be some force that caused the continents to move apart. Therefore, he came up with the idea that plate tectonics that were located under Earth's surface (lithosphere), which were moving, and brought the continents along with it.

Another evidence is the existence of mountains, volcanoes, earthquakes, canyons, tsunamis and other landforms and landscapes. These could not have been formed without plate tectonics.

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