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The inflection point was probably in late 1966 or 1967, so when Neil Armstrong flew to space on Gemini 8, plate tectonics was not widely accepted, but when he landed on the Moon three years later it was the mainstream consensus.
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3159/
Dunno, I studied geology and my older lecturers told us that when they were students plate tectonics wasn’t an established science. There are plenty of other theories for how mountains formed
Yes, plate tectonics is recent. But it explains how continents move. The comics says that before 1967, no thought they moved at all. Which is false.