What do scientists call the theory that describes the motion of the plates?

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Edwin Blackburn

2 May, 21:20

What do scientists call the theory that describes the motion of the plates?

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Susan Mcconnell · Answer 1

Developed from the 1950s through the 1970s, plate tectonics is the modern version of continental drift, a theory first proposed by scientist Alfred Wegener in 1912. Wegener didn't have an explanation for how continents could move around the planet, but researchers do now.