Continental Drift
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Fit of the Continents
Said to fit
"Just like a jigsaw puzzle"
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Wegener noticed that the coasts of western Africa and eastern South America looked like the boundaries of joining pieces of a jigsaw puzzle. He was not the first to notice this, though he was the first to suggest formally that they were connected.