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    • 1930 Black & white photo of Greenland expedition Alfred Wegener
    Rights: Public domain Published 9 April 2010 Size: 880 KB Referencing Hub media

    Alfred Wegener (pictured here on the right) realised that many continents fitted together like reverse templates. This caused him to propose the theory of continental drift, which evolved into the ideas of plate tectonics.

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