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魏格纳提出了大陆漂移说 Wegener proposed the continental drift theory. | ||
大陆漂移、海底扩张是地球膨胀的直接结果。 The earth's expansion may directly result in continent drift and seafloor spreading. | ||
然而，到1946年，对大陆漂移说的战斗进行得如火如荼。 By 1946, however, the battle over continental drift was in full swing. | ||
起初，科学家们嘲笑魏格纳有关大陆漂移的想法，不愿认真考虑。 At first scientists laughed at Wegener's idea about floating continents and would not take it seriously. | ||
在大陆漂移学说发表之后许多年，仍然有许多科学家认为这是不可置信的。 Many years after the theory of drifting continents was made public, it was still looked upon by many scientists as unbelievable. | ||
地球内部因放射而产生的热量为板块运动、大陆漂移、造山运动和地震提供了能量。 Earth's internal heat, fueled by radioactivity, provides the energy for plate tectonics and continental drift, mountain building, and earthquakes. | ||
大陆漂移理论自阿尔弗雷德·魏格纳在1910年首先提出之后，经历了一段漫长和混乱的历史。 The Theory of Continental Drift has had a long and turbulent history since it was first proposed by Alfred Wagener in 1910. | ||
1912年，阿尔弗雷德·魏格纳在一个被称为“大陆漂移”的理论中提出，地球上的大陆是可移动的。 In 1912, Alfred Wegener proposed, in a widely debated theory that came to be called continental drift, that Earth's continents were mobile. | ||
例如，斯蒂芬·杰伊·古尔德认为，大陆漂移理论之所以被否决，是因为它没有解释大陆是如何穿过明显很坚固的海底的。 Stephen Jay Gould, for example, argues that continental drift theory was rejected because it did not explain how continents could move through an apparently solid oceanic floor. | ||
