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French geographer
Antonio Snider-Pellegrini
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French geographer
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Trieste, Province of Trieste, Friuli–Venezia Giulia, Italy
Place of death
New York City, New York, U.S.A.
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83 years
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Antonio Snider-Pellegrini (1802–1885) was a French geographer and scientist who theorized about the possibility of continental drift, anticipating Wegener's theories concerning Pangaea by several decades.
In 1858, Snider-Pellegrini published his book, La Création et ses mystères dévoilés ("The Creation and its Mysteries Unveiled"). He proposed that all of the continents were once connected together during the Pennsylvanian Period. He based this theory on the fact that he had found plant fossils in both Europe and the United States that were identical. He found matching fossils on all of the continents.
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