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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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An earth science example is the publication of Wegener's theory of continental drift in 1912.
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He waxed vehement about dinosaurs and extinction, about continental drift and the good old Galapagos finch.
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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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Plate tectonics is not the same as continental drift .
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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.
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We learn, too, that the great geophysicist, Sir Harold Jeffreys, refused to accept the evidence for continental drift .