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How are continental drift and plate tectonics related?

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Answer: Over millions of years, the continents drift into new configurations. Convection in the molten rock of Earth's mantle drives the movement of the plates. ... This suggests that in the distant past, the configuration of continents was different than it is today, a theory Wegener called “continental drift.”

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