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What is the fundamental difference between Continental Drift and Plate Tectonics?

The role of oceanic crust - stationary in Continental Drift, mobile in Plate Tectonics
The role of oceanic crust - mobile in Continental Drift, stationary in Plate Tectonics
Continental Drift said there was no Pangea, but Plate Tectonics says there was

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The difference between continental drift and plate tectonics is that the theory of continental drift states that the world was made up of a single continent.The theory of plate-tectonics, on the other hand, states that earth's surface is broken into numbers of shifting plates or slabs

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