Darwin's continental drift
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Lisbon is grandly celebrating the Darwin anniversaries, but to the east in Turkey things are different.
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Continental drift - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Continental drift is the movement of the Earth's continents relative to each other. The hypothesis that continents 'drift' was first put forward by Abraham Ortelius in 1596 and was fully developed by Alfred Wegener in 1912. However, it was not until the development of the theory of plate tectonics in the 1960s, that a sufficient geological explanation of that movement was understood. (This arti...
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Current Biology
دوره 19 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2009