Continental drift

continental drift

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Definition

Glossary of "Evolution of Plants (2nd ed.)" by Willis & McElwain (2014)

• A hypothesis put forward to account for various features of the Earth's surface, e.g. the distribution of the continents and ocean basins.

Glossary of "Environmental Science: Earth as a Living Planet (2nd ed.)" by Botkin & Keller (1998)

• The movement of continents in response to seafloor spreading. The most recent episode of continental drift supposedly started about 200 million years ago with the breakup of the supercontintnt Pangaea.

文献（引用）

• Botkin, D. B. & Keller, E. A. 1998. Environmental Science: Earth as a Living Planet, 2nd ed. -xxxxii + 649 pp. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York.
• Willis, K. J. & McElwain, J. C. 2014. The Evolution of Plants, 2nd ed. -ix + 398 pp. Oxford University Press, Oxford.

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