the continental drift theory was first brought to attention by Alfred Wegener, And some of the theories that he had was that the edges of the continents perfectly matches with one another, supporting that the continents were once all together. because there were fossils such as glossopteris and marsupials were found in the continents that indicate that the continents were once all attached to each other. and also similar rock types were found to be present in those continents and are determined by the correlation method. The remains of the organisms such as mosasaurs, marsupials and fossilized plants. and these fossils indicates the existence of the large supercontinent named Pangaea that got separated due to the plate motion.
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