Then in 1963, in the early days of the development of the theory of plate tectonics.

然后是在1963年，在板块构造理论发展的早期。

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What does the theory of plate tectonics maintain?

这板块构造学说的理论讲些什么？

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The theory of plate tectonics is the division of palaeo-plates.

板块构造理论是古板块分区的基础。

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Some things which seem obvious now could not have been found without maps: that Brazil's bulge fits neatly into West Africa's dent, and so to the theory of plate tectonics, for example.

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By the 1960s, scientists had developed a theory called plate tectonics explaining the locations of volcanoes and other large-scale geologic features.

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After gorging on bear meat, the expedition's scientists bring back evidence that helps prove the controversial theory of continental drift, which gives rise in due course to the science of plate tectonics, which explains why it was that Krakatoa blew itself up--and will do so again, in eons hence.

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