(idea) by bozon Sat Nov 13 1999 at 10:27:28

The theory that the earth's continents have moved through geologic time, first proposed by Alfred Wegener in 1912, and considered controversial until 1954 when it was resurrected by British geophysicists to explain the wandering magnetic pole.

Now known as plate tectonics.
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