There is a considerable overlap between Wegener's concepts and the later widely embraced plate tectonics theory.

魏格纳的概念与后来被广泛接受的板块构造理论之间有相当大的重叠。

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The research work consequently experienced geosyncline theory period and plate tectonics theory period.

以后的研究经过了地槽理论阶段和板块构造理论阶段。

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The implication of tectonic cycle in terms of plate tectonics theory is totally different from the one in early knowledge, which laid stress on uncomformity.

板块构造理论中的构造旋回含义与早期经典的强调以不整合为基础的认识不同。

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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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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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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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