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Alfred Wegener is known as father of plate tectonics, he published this theory in his 1915 book, “On the Origin of Continents and Oceans”. In it he also proposed the existence of the supercontinent, and named it (Pangaea means "all the land" in Greek). The concept of plate tectonics was fully accepted in the 1960s. According to the theory, Earth has a rigid outer layer, known as the lithosphere, which is typically about 100 km thick and overlies a plastic layer called the astheno...

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