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Science 31 October 1969:
Vol. 166. no. 3905, pp. 609 - 611
DOI: 10.1126/science.166.3905.609
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Topological Inconsistency of Continental Drift on the Present-Sized Earth

R. Meservey 1

1 Francis Bitter National Magnet Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge 02139

Certain continents have in the past moved with respect to each other in a manner clearly implied by sea-floor spreading and other data. However, the resulting collective motion of all the continents was apparently not topologically possible on the present-sized earth. An expanding earth might resolve this difficulty.

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