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How Ice Age Ice Movement Proved Continental Drift Was Real—You Won’t Believe This! For over a century, scientists have debated the mechanics and evidence behind continental drift—the revolutionary theory that Earth’s continents once formed a single supercontinent, Pangaea, and have since drifted apart. While Alfred Wegener first proposed this groundbreaking idea in 1912, it faced fierce skepticism until dramatic evidence emerged from the Ice Ages. Unexpected ice movement during the glacial periods provided some of the most compelling proof that continents are not stationary, reshaping geology as we know it. ### The Ice Age Climate Time Machine During the Ice Ages—spanning roughly 2.6 million to 11,700 years ago—massive glaciers swept across North America, Europe, and Asia, sculpting continents and reshaping landscapes. At first glance, glaciers appear to move downhill under their own weight, but what surprised researchers wasn’t just their movement, but how and why they shifted across vast landmasses.