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Abraham Orteluis, was the one who came up with the contineal drift theory.His evidence was that some parts of the world like; The Americans, Eurasia, and Africa fit together like a jig-saw puzzle. -
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Nicolas Steno's law of Superpostiton. It compares rock layers to rocks above it. -
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Alfred Wegner was the first to introduce the theory of continetal drift to the world. His idea was rejected beacuase missing evidence until 1950 when enough evidence was found to support hs theory. -
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While broswing the universary libary one dayAlfread came across a scientific paper that listed fossils of identical plants and animals found on opposite sides of the Atlantic. Fascinated by thuis information, Wegner began to look for, amd find,more cases of similar organsims seperated by great oceans. The continets fit together like a jig-saw puzzle. -
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Authur Holmes Theory is that the matle goes under thermal convection -
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Harry Hess- Sea floor spreading theory evidence in 1962. This lead to his discovrey of submerged and curiosly flat topped moutain, -
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Dan Mckenzie's theory is that the lithosphere is dived into a few dozen plates that move across the earth's surface relative to each other
