Answer: D. Over tens of millions of years the giant supercontinent Pangaea began to slowly drift apart forming the continents as they are known today.
Also in the article is “Alfred Wegener’s theory of continental drift “. The idea of the possibility of went back more than 100 years before that but there was no proof either then or in Wegener’s time. Wegener thought that the continents floated on the mantle and that is …
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 …
Alfred Wegener’s continental drift theory went over like a lead balloon in 1912 and even more so when he expanded on the theory in 1915. His idea that the seven continents of the world as had been once one huge supercontinent called “Pangaea” was met with the same general non interest when it was not outright dismissed that the Jesus myth theory has …