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gwaydms t1_ir0m6g2 wrote

Reply to comment by Gyalgatine in TIL a German scientist named Alfred Wegener was ridiculed in 1912 for advancing the idea that the continents were adrift. Ridiculed as having “wandering pole plague.” or “Germanic pseudo­-science” and accused Wegener of toying with the evidence to spin himself into “a state of auto-intoxication." by Hot----------Dog

Wegener didn't understand that a crustal plate could contain continental crust, oceanic crust, or both. The continents move as parts of the plates spread and/or subduct.

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