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1. What is the Driving Mechanism of Continental Drift?


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Holmes proposed that the continents, which “floated” on the Earth's mantle, moved with the convection flow of the magma (hot semifluid below the Earth's crust). The mechanism of continental drift is like the flow of branches floating in the moving waters of rivers, as shown in Figure 3-11.4.

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