Over the next decades, other scientists brought forth more evidence for the theory of continental drift, such as the presence of identical plant fossils in North American and European coal deposits.

在接下来的几十年里，其他科学家为大陆漂移理论提出了更多的证据，比如在北美和欧洲的煤矿中发现了相同的植物化石。

The theory of continental drift was also instrumental in developing another theory — that of plate tectonics, which explains that the movement of large sections of Earth's crust, called tectonic plates, causes changes in Earth's surface.

大陆漂移理论也有助于发展另一种理论——板块构造理论，该理论解释了地壳大块区域（即构造板块）的运动导致了地球表面的变化。

Yet plate tectonics is a descendant of Alfred Wegener's theory of continental drift, in quite the same way that modern evolutionary theory is a descendant of Darwin's theory of natural selection.

然而板块构造学是阿尔弗雷德·韦格纳大陆漂移理论的后裔，就像现代进化论是达尔文自然选择理论的后裔一样。