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| Type | Description | Contributor | Date |
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| Invalidated site: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - The Emergence and Evolution of Plate Tectonics - Continental Drift. | Oct 08, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: Cambridge University Press - Cambridge Core - A historical account of how continental drift and plate tectonics provided the framework for our current understanding of palaeogeography. | Oct 31, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: American Physical Society - January 6, 1912: Alfred Wegener Presents His Theory of Continental Drift. | Apr 04, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: CedarCommons - Mountain Building and Continental Drift (PDF). | Mar 01, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: Academia - Continental Drift and the Theory of Plate Tectonics (PDF). | Jan 14, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: Science Advances - Continental drift shifts tropical rainfall by altering radiation and ocean heat transport. | Dec 05, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: University of California Museum of Paleontology - Plate Tectonics: The Rocky History of an Idea. | Jun 14, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Indian Academy of Sciences - Wegener and his Theory of Continental Drift. | Apr 05, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - The Emergence and Evolution of Plate Tectonics - Continental Drift. | Feb 20, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: City University of New York Pressbooks - Continental Drift: founding block of the Plate Tectonics Theory. | Nov 14, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Live Science - Continental Drift: The groundbreaking theory of moving continents. | Jul 27, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Nature - Scientific Reports - Continental drift and climate change drive instability in insect assemblages. | Mar 25, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Academia - Continental drift. | Feb 12, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Geosciences LibreTexts - Continental Drift. | Nov 13, 2022 | ||
| Media added. | Apr 09, 2021 | ||
| Corrected display issue. | Mar 13, 2019 | ||
| Add new Web site: National Geographic - Continental Drift. | Feb 25, 2014 | ||
| Video discussing continental drift added. | Jun 07, 2013 | ||
| Added a video showing continental drift through geologic time. | Jul 22, 2011 | ||
| Added video explaining continental drift. | Feb 09, 2011 | ||
| Updated geologic time data. | May 25, 2010 | ||
| Added new Web site: NASA - For Kids Only - Evidence Supporting Continental Drift. | Apr 07, 2008 | ||
| Added new Web site: RCN Corporation - The Geologic and Evolutionary Record. | Feb 27, 2008 | ||
| Added new Web site: Think Quest - Continental Drift. | Sep 20, 2007 | ||
| Added new Web site: Enchanted Learning - Continental Drift. | Sep 20, 2007 | ||
| Added new Web site: Plate Tectonics - Continental Drift. | Sep 20, 2007 | ||
| Article revised and updated. | May 17, 2007 | ||
| Added new Web site: The National Academy of Sciences - When the Earth Moves - Seafloor Spreading and Plate Tectonics. | Jan 15, 2007 | ||
| Article added to new online database. | Jul 20, 1998 |
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