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Evidence for the theory of continental drift was first proposed in 1912 by what german scientist?

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Wegener was the first to use the phrase "continental drift" (1912, 1915) (in German "die Verschiebung der Kontinente" – translated into English in 1922) and formally publish the hypothesis that the continents had somehow "drifted" apart.....
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