Continental Drift
Continental drift is the hypothesis that the Earth's continents have moved over geologic time relative to each other, thus appearing to have "drifted" across the ocean bed. The speculation that continents might have 'drifted' was first put forward by Abraham Ortelius in 1596. The concept was independently and more fully developed by Alfred Wegener in 1912, but his hypothesis was rejected by many for lack of any motive mechanism. Arthur Holmes later proposed mantle convection for that mechanism. The idea of continental drift has since been subsumed by the theory of plate tectonics, which explains that the continents move by …
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MSC: Munich Security Conference · 21 February 2024 English
The assessment that India is a desirable strategic partner challenges.2 In its conclusions on the “EU Strategy on for the European Union (EU) and its member states has India” from …
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R Street Institute · 30 January 2024 English
In the wake of the Myriad decision, investment exploded from $6.21 billion in 2013 to over $17 billion in 2018, and a wide range of new tests for genetic conditions …
J., Liddell, K., McCarthy, A.H. et al., Continental drift? Do European clinical genetic testing laboratories …
ACUS: Atlantic Council of the United States · 19 January 2024
The Center honors General Brent Scowcroft’s legacy of service and embodies his ethos of nonpartisan commitment to the cause of security, support for US leadership in cooperation with allies and …
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ACUS: Atlantic Council of the United States · 15 December 2023 English
The Center honors General Brent Scowcroft’s legacy of service and embodies his ethos of nonpartisan commitment to the cause of security, support for US leadership in cooperation with allies and …
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Mixed Migration Centre · 27 November 2023 English
policy or position of the Danish Refugee Council or any of the donors supporting the development of this report or the work of The editors would like to thank the …
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INREA: National Institute for research in technical sciences for the environment and agriculture · 13 November 2023 English
fragmentation of earlier dis- tributions, and that continental drift had segregated the taxa: the distribution … the dispersal from the breakups caused by continental drift or the other tectonic events. The same tendencies …
INREA: National Institute for research in technical sciences for the environment and agriculture · 6 November 2023 English
fragmentation of earlier dis- tributions, and that continental drift had segregated the taxa: the distribution … the dispersal from the breakups caused by continental drift or the other tectonic events. The same tendencies …
INREA: National Institute for research in technical sciences for the environment and agriculture · 31 October 2023
composition include latitudinal gradients and continental drift. However, the composition of non- native …
INREA: National Institute for research in technical sciences for the environment and agriculture · 29 October 2023
Leipzig, Germany. Scotese, C. R. 2004. A continental drift flipbook. Journal of Geology 112: 792– 741 …
INREA: National Institute for research in technical sciences for the environment and agriculture · 28 October 2023 French
rainforests results from the complex interaction of continental drift, past climate oscillations, dispersal events …
