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The Earth Moves – Tectonic Plates & Continental Drift
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In 1908, an amateur American geologist named Frank Bursley Taylor thought – rightly – that continents moved and their crashing together could have pushed up the world’s mountains. He noticed that some continents were shaped very similarly to others so that, for example, South America might have been fitted to Africa like a jigsaw puzzle, and so on. He did not produce much evidence though and the theory was considered too crazy for serious attention.
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