The most obvious example is the theory of continental drift . Almost everything that geologists thought 60 years ago about geological processes was wrong, because the drift theory was a minority viewpoint for 30 years.
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In 1969, Breed and Edwin H . Colbert were two of the four vertebrate paleontologists in Antarctica who helped solidify the acceptance of continental drift theory, by finding a 220-million-year-old fossil of a " Lystrosaurus ".
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Some of " Eltanin "'s research cruises collected magnetic profiles of the sea floor that proved to be pivotal evidence in the acceptance of the continental drift theory, by proving the existence of sea floor spreading.
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As another followup to the evolution of whales topic ( interesting stuff ! ), the article mentions something called " Nasal Drift Theory " but doing a wikipedia search only redirects back to the evolution of whales article.
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At the annual meeting of the German Geological Society in January 1939, he was right opposing the idea that the Mid-Atlantic Ridge was an orogenic uplift by compression, and his opposition to disregard the Continental drift theory raised doubts.
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:: : Many theories have been replaced during modern science, for example the continental drift theory by plate tectonics, the cosmological constant by dark energy and the luminiferous aether / U ) 23 : 30, 3 April 2011 ( UTC)
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Some supporters of the " in situ " theory believe that Stopes'and Watson's discovery of a plant stem extending through multiple coal balls shows that coal balls formed " in situ ", stating that the drift theory fails to explain Stopes'and Watson's observation.
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In 1989, Murray Horn and Kenneth Shepsle proposed that coalitional drift, the phenomenon of present legislation being overwritten by the changing views of political coalitions, is a trade-off to bureaucratic drift . The relationship between bureaucratic and coalitional drift is a disputed part of the bureaucratic drift theory.
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They also cite fragile pieces of organic material projecting outside some coal balls, contending that if the drift theory was correct, the projections would have been destroyed, and some large coal balls are large enough that they could never have been able to be transported in the first place.
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Though this in of itself is not conclusive evidence of anything, it has led to an age-related epigenetic drift theory where abnormalities in epigenetic machinery and exposure to certain environmental factors which occur earlier in life lead to aberrant DNA methylation patterns far later, contributing to sporadic Alzheimer's Disease predisposition.
