Continental drift

A theory proposed in 1912 by [Alfred Wegener]?. It postulated the movement of continents and was widely rejected as unlikely. Only in the 1960s, with the arrival of evidence from geological research, the theory was incorporated into a now accepted concept of [plate tectonics]?. Continental drift resulted in the separation of Earth's continents from a single continental block called Pangea?. It is thought that the Earth has had several supercontinents similar to Pangea in its past, and that they have repeatedly broken apart and recoalesced over hundreds of millions of years.