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EVER since Wegener published in 1915 his remarkable theory of the drift of the continents and the movement of the poles, most of us have viewed a map of the world with entirely different eyes, and it has become almost instinctive to look for correspondences between the outlines of the continents and relationships between the continents and the oceans.
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SIMPSON, G. Continents and Oceans. Nature 124, 837–838 (1929). https://doi.org/10.1038/124837a0
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