Facts About Plate Tectonics
- The theory that states that the Earth's "outer shell" is split into huge slabs of rock we call "plates," glide over the Earth's mantle is known as the Plate Tectonics
- Alfred Wegener proposed this theory back in 1915 when it was still named the continental drift
- Before plate tectonics, the continental drift theory was used to explain the geologic features of a region, which eventually became the unifying theory of geology.
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