théorie de la dérive continentale

OBS: Le terme «théorie de la dérive» est la forme abrégée utilisée couramment de façon implicite pour désigner la «théorie de la dérive continentale» ou «théorie de la dérive des continents».

CONT: The hypothesis of continental drift was largely developed by the German Alfred L. Wegener, a lecturer in astronomy and meteorology, who suggested that the Earth's continents had at one time been joined in two supercontinents. In the year 1912, Wegener made the proposal that all the continents were previously one large continent, but then broke apart, and had drifted through the ocean floor to where they are now located.
OBS: The terms ""drift theory"" and ""displacement theory"" are the current shortened forms used implicitly to mean the ""theory of continental drift"", or ""continental displacement theory"".