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How did Wegener think that continents went together?

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Wegener suggested that perhaps the rotation of the Earth caused the continents to shift towards and apart from each other. (It doesn't.) Today, we know that the continents rest on massive slabs of rock called tectonic plates. The plates are always moving and interacting in a process called plate tectonics.

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Fossils of similar organisms across widely disparate continents encouraged the revolutionary theory of continental drift. He called this movement continental drift. Pangaea. Wegener was convinced that all of Earth's continents were once part of an enormous, single landmass called Pangaea.

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