How to use in-sentence of “Continental drift”:
+ The combination of continental drift and evolution can explain what is found in the fossil record.
+ In the Mesozoic period before the continental drift opened the South Atlantic Ocean, the Congo was the upper part of a river about 12,000 km long that flowed west across the parts of Gondwanaland, now called Africa and South America.
+ Seafloor spreading helps explain continental drift in plate tectonics.
+ Although continental drift explained many of Wegener’s observations, he could not find scientific evidence to make a complete explanation of how continents move.
+ Holmes showed us that thermal convection currents were strong enough to move large land masses, which contributed to Alfred Wegener’s theory of continental drift or theory of Plate tectonics.
+ Almost 6 million years ago, continental drift closed the Strait of Gibraltar.
+ The British geologist Arthur Holmes championed the theory of continental drift at a time when it was unfashionable.
+ The process of continental drift is fuelled by the production of sea-floor material at the mid-Atlantic trench.
