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Continental Drift Research Paper

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Continental drift all started with a theory that all the continents were connected called Pangaea, becoming a super-continent this was discovered by Alfred Wegener a polar researcher, Geophysicist, and a meteorologist. It was first proposed in 1912, and Alfred says this occurred around 299 million to 273 million years ago but the super-continent started to break apart 200 million years ago. The most popular and major evidence for Pangaea was that some of the continents fit perfectly together. The most noticeable continents were North Western coast of Africa and the Eastern coast of South America, theses two looked like they could been once connected. Another piece of evidence is the distribution of fossils, archaeologists have been discovering

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