Continental Drift was a great advance in geologic thinking of the dynamic nature of Earth. It was also widely dismissed and its author, Alfred Wegener, died before he was vindicated as one of the fathers of modern geology. Read the article linked below from NASA's Earth Obervatory to enhance your understanding of the history of this seminal idea in Earth geophysics.
Alfred Wegener and Continental Drift
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