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The 43 pages that link to Continental drift, each with the reason it gives.

• Plate tectonicsRelated: The precursor theory whose evidence survived and whose missing mechanism plate tectonics supplied.

• GondwanaNarrower topic: Gondwana’s matching rocks and fossils supplied evidence for this idea.

• Seafloor spreadingRelated: Spreading supplied the missing mechanism that made drift physically plausible.

• PangaeaRelated: Pangaea was drift's central claim, rejected until a driving mechanism was found.

• PaleomagnetismRelated: Paleomagnetic apparent polar wander paths revived drifting continents in the 1950s.

• Mantle convectionRelated: Convection supplied the mechanism drift critics said was missing.

• CenozoicRelated: Continental rearrangement shaped Cenozoic oceans, mountain belts, and climate.

• PaleobiogeographyRelated: Reconstructed continental positions explain why fossil ranges now separated were once connected.

• Alfred WegenerBroader topic: The hypothesis Wegener named, defended, and never convincingly powered with a mechanism.

• Hotspot volcanismRelated: Hotspot tracks supplied a distinct, geographically fixed reference for testing plate motion.

• Wilson cycleCompared with: Wilson's cycle helped convert drift skepticism into acceptance of mobile plates.

• Indian PlateRelated: India’s northward journey is a striking instance of continental drift.

• LaurasiaRelated: The drift of Laurasian fragments produced major changes in their positions.

• Tectonic plateRelated: It proposed large-scale motion later explained through moving plates.

• Marie TharpRelated: Tharp's maps gave drift the geographic evidence that Wegener's land-based arguments lacked.

• South American PlateRelated: The separation of South America and Africa became evidence for continental movement.

• Supercontinent cycleRelated: The pre-plate predecessor whose acceptance paved the way for deep-time supercontinent history.

• GlossopterisRelated: Glossopteris distributions became a prominent fossil argument for this idea.

• Harry HessNarrower topic: Hess sought a physical process that could account for the continental motion Wegener had proposed.

• LystrosaurusRelated: The genus’s distribution across now-separated continents reflects their former geographic connections.

• Arthur HolmesRelated: Holmes gave this hypothesis a possible driving mechanism.

• Vine–Matthews–Morley hypothesisRelated: Vine himself saw the hypothesis as the vindication of Wegener's long-dismissed idea.

• Wadati–Benioff zoneRelated: Dipping seismic zones gave drift's critics the missing mechanism: slabs sink at trenches.

• History of geologyRelated: Its contested history paved the way for a mobile, rather than fixed, Earth.

• J. Tuzo WilsonRelated: Wilson helped connect earlier drift arguments to a mechanism involving moving plates.

• Afro-EurasiaRelated: It explains why present-day continental arrangements differ from earlier connected landmasses.

• Harold JeffreysCompared with: Jeffreys argued that proposed forces could not move continents through the strong oceanic crust.

• Joseph Dalton HookerCompared with: Hooker interpreted plant distributions before continental drift provided a widely accepted geographic mechanism.

• Huronian glaciationRelated: Continental positions affect glacial indicators and complicate estimates of ancient ice extent.

• History of lifeRelated: Changing land connections and barriers alter habitats, migration, and geographic isolation.

• MesosaurusRelated: Mesosaurus fossils on separated continents became evidence that Africa and South America had once been joined.

• Biogeographic realmRelated: Past continental positions help explain distributions that modern geography cannot.

• ContinentsRelated: It anticipated the motion later explained by plate tectonics.

• John Tuzo WilsonCompared with: Wilson’s plate-boundary mechanics helped turn this earlier idea into a testable global theory.

• TitanosauriaRelated: Titanosaur fossils across separated continents reflect changing geography and dispersal.

• LacertidaeRelated: Continental history provides context for interpreting the geographic patterns of lacertid lineages.

• Seafloor spreading hypothesisRelated: Seafloor spreading supplied the mechanism drift had lacked, resurrecting Wegener's dismissed idea.

• Geological history of EarthRelated: Past continental positions explain changing oceans, climates, and fossil distributions.

• Maurice EwingRelated: Ocean-floor mapping from Ewing's research environment supplied evidence that transformed debate about moving continents.

• VaalbaraRelated: Reconstructing Vaalbara requires estimating how the cratons moved after any proposed separation.

• Expanding EarthNarrower topic: Expanding Earth emerged as one proposed explanation for the separation central to continental drift.

• GeodynamicsRelated: Its history records the surface consequences of long-term internal dynamics.

• PaleocontinentRelated: Paleocontinents are reconstructed by tracing this motion through geological evidence.