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Wegener proposed that mountains form when continents collide crumpling up their edges was wegener's idea about
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Wegener proposed that mountains form when continents collide crumpling up their edges was wegener's idea about

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Answer: Continental drift

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Continental drift. This Theory was invented by Alfred Wegener.

His hypothesis was that the continents move relative to each other on the tectonic plate and so they drift. The drifting and folding of the continents results in pushing up huge mountains.



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