Stephen Jay Gould, for example, argues that continental drift theory was rejected because it did not explain how continents could move through an apparently solid oceanic floor.

例如，斯蒂芬·杰伊·古尔德认为，大陆漂移理论之所以被否决，是因为它没有解释大陆是如何穿过明显很坚固的海底的。

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Wegener proposed the continental drift theory.

魏格纳提出了大陆漂移说

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In 1912, Alfred Wegener proposed, in a widely debated theory that came to be called continental drift, that Earth's continents were mobile.

1912年，阿尔弗雷德·魏格纳在一个被称为“大陆漂移”的理论中提出，地球上的大陆是可移动的。

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After gorging on bear meat, the expedition's scientists bring back evidence that helps prove the controversial theory of continental drift, which gives rise in due course to the science of plate tectonics, which explains why it was that Krakatoa blew itself up--and will do so again, in eons hence.

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