German meteorologist and geophysicist Alfred Wegener was the first person to formulate a complete statement of the continental drift hypothesis. Previous scientists had explained the separation of the modern world’s continents as having resulted from the subsidence, or sinking, of large portions of an ancient supercontinent to form the oceans.
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