The continental conversation: the theory of continental drift

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The Daily Dimwits                 16th January 1912

The Continental Conversation

Wegener also suggests that continents have not always been in their current positions and that they have drifted. His book is about the supercontinent named ‘Pangaea.’

German man aged 32 publishes

theory of continental drift.        This book raises all sorts of

                                                        ludicrous ideas including the idea

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                                                        that the discovery of similarities

                                                        between layers of rock in different

Today, Alfred Wegener of Germany,         continents and fossils of tropical

published his theory of continental        plants have been found on Arctic

drift. We all know the crinkly surface        Islands, where the present climate

of the earth is caused by the shrinkage        would have killed them off help to

of the surface as it cooled down after        prove his theory of continental drift.

the earth was formed.                                

                                                        Scientist’s reactions have been very

But Wegener thinks he knows better.        hostile. Charles Smite told us  

He told us “The jigsaw-like fit of the ...

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