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Early plate tectonics was surprisingly speedy - Enlarge / 2.7-billion-year-old basalt lava flows in the Pilbara Craton,... - arstechnica.com/?p=1961150

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On January 6, 1912, German geologist Alfred Wegener presented his theory of continental drift for the first time in public at a meeting of the Geological Society (‘Geologische Vereinigung’) at Senckenberg Museum in Frankfurt, Germany.

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German meterologist, geophysicist, Alfred Wegener comes up with his landmark theory of Continental Drift in 1912, where he suggests that all the continents drifted away from one big super continent, gradually.

#geology #continentaldrift #todayinhistory

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Watch Continental Drift from Pangea to Today.

About 300 million years ago, Earth didn't have seven continents, but instead one massive supercontinent called Pangaea, which was surrounded by a single ocean called Panthalassa.

#Pangaea #continentaldrift

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Watch Continental Drift from Pangea to Today.

About 300 million years ago, Earth didn't have seven continents, but instead one massive supercontinent called Pangaea, which was surrounded by a single ocean called Panthalassa.

#Pangaea #continentaldrift

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