Continental Drift

... Katherine Trigg 11RMi Continental Drift In these times the theory of Continental Drift is common knowledge to almost any educated person. The knowledge that the continents are slowly moving, is almost presumed knowledge to almost everyone, however this was most definitely not always the case. The theory of Continental Drift was first introduced 100 years ago by a scientist named Alfred Wegener. Wegener first became interested in the concept of continental drift when he came across a scientific paper that listed fossils of identical plants and animals that had been found on opposite sides of the Atlantic. Wegener became intrigued by this information and sought out to find greater pieces of evidence to support his theory, that at one point in time the continents were not separated by these large oceans that we know to be there today. Wegener began to examine rocks from either side of the Atlantic. He noticed that

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