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It was published in 1912 and proposed the theory of continental drift, suggesting that continents were once joined together in a supercontinent called Pangea and are still moving apart today.
And he was kind of like, hey, wait a minute, everyone. This looks like a giant puzzle if you stand back and look at a map and you're just not standing back far enough.
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Episode: Plate Tectonics Are What Makes Earth Inhabitable
It was published in 1912 and proposed the theory of continental drift, suggesting that continents were once joined together in a supercontinent called Pangea and are still moving apart today.
And he was kind of like, hey, wait a minute, everyone. This looks like a giant puzzle if you stand back and look at a map and you're just not standing back far enough.
In that book, 'The Origin of the Continents and Oceans', he's saying not only did the continents move apart because they used to form the supercontinent called Pangea, all the land, they're still moving around today.