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Continental Drift

Continental Drift is a geodynamic hypothesis in Earth sciences that posits that Earth’s continental lithospheric masses have undergone long-term, large-scale horizontal displacement relative to one another across the planet’s surface through geological time, thereby reorganizing paleogeographic and biogeographic patterns.

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Sea-floor spreading and continental drift

Xavier Le Pichon · Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres · 1968 · 1.5K citations

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The Lhasa Terrane: Record of a microcontinent and its histories of drift and growth

Di‐Cheng Zhu, Zhidan Zhao, Yaoling Niu et al. · Earth and Planetary Science Letters · 2010 · 1.4K citations · Full text

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A New Class of Faults and their Bearing on Continental Drift

J. Tuzo Wilson · Nature · 1965 · 1.3K citations

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Cenozoic evolution of Antarctic glaciation, the circum-Antarctic Ocean, and their impact on global paleoceanography

James P. Kennett · Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres · 1977 · 1.3K citations

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The fit of the continents around the Atlantic

E. C. Bullard, James E. Everett, Alan G. Smith · Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series A Mathematical and Physical Sciences · 1965 · 1.2K citations

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    National Institute of Oceanography and Applied Geophysics, Italy

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    Dorrik A. V. Stow

    Heriot-Watt University, United Kingdom

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    F. Javier Hernández‐Molina

    Royal Holloway University of London, United Kingdom

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    James E T Channell

    University of Florida, United States

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    Gabriele Uenzelmann‐Neben

    Alfred-Wegener-Institut Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung, Germany

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  1. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

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    Bremerhaven, Germany

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    Trieste, Italy

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    Cambridge, United Kingdom

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    Beijing, China

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    New York, United States

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