How To Use Continental drift In A Sentence
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Once viewed as a relic, continental drift and seafloor spreading evolved into the modern concept of plate tectonics.
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A hypothetical supercontinent that included all the landmasses of the earth before the Triassic Period. When continental drift began, Pangaea broke up into Laurasia and Gondwanaland.
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It was this temporary feature which inspired Wegener to study what he defined as continental drift, although he did not live to see his hypothesis become generally accepted.
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Perhaps it was as well that continental drift was so profoundly unfashionable in the 1920s and 1930s.
THE EARTH: An Intimate History
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Continental drift also has an effect on the weather, though the process is much slower.
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An earth science example is the publication of Wegener's theory of continental drift in 1912.
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Perhaps it was as well that continental drift was so profoundly unfashionable in the 1920s and 1930s.
THE EARTH: An Intimate History
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The continental drift and the development of the flowering plants.
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continental drift
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Geologists use paleomagnetic studies for dating purposes, but also have used the techniques to map continental drift.
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Plate tectonics is not the same as continental drift.
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He does a great job on my shoes, and this is one of those shops that predates continental drift so it's a well-worn, lived-in place that smells great and is a treat to walk into.
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An earth science example is the publication of Wegener's theory of continental drift in 1912.
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Plate tectonics is not the same as continental drift.
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Again, continental drift seems to provide the most likely mechanism.
Ice Time: Climate, Science, and Life on Earth
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They are made of continental rather than oceanic rock, and seem to be a small part of the jigsaw puzzle of continental drift rather than genuine oceanic islands.
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We learn, too, that the great geophysicist, Sir Harold Jeffreys, refused to accept the evidence for continental drift.
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How about Alfred Wegener and continental drift, probably the canonical story of establishment myopia?
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This is because of continental drift and the weight of all the ice.
Times, Sunday Times
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Continental Drift has had a long and turbulent history since it was first proposed by Alfred Wagener in 1910.
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Again, continental drift seems to provide the most likely mechanism.
Ice Time: Climate, Science, and Life on Earth
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It provides strong evidence for the main mechanism of continental drift - that is, spreading of the sea floor as new material wells up from the mantle.
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Once viewed as a relic, continental drift and seafloor spreading evolved into the modern concept of plate tectonics.
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He waxed vehement about dinosaurs and extinction, about continental drift and the good old Galapagos finch.
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This is because of continental drift and the weight of all the ice.
Times, Sunday Times
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So long as no viable cause for continental drift could be demonstrated, however, belief in it remained an act of faith.
