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What early observations were used as evidence/explanation that the continents were once connected?
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What early observations were used as evidence/explanation that the continents were

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Alfred Wegener, in the first three decades of this century, and DuToit in the 1920s and 1930s gathered evidence that the continents had moved. They based their idea of continental drift on several lines of evidence: fit of the continents, paleoclimate indicators, truncated geologic features, and fossils.

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