Continental drift without expansion was proposed by Frank Bursley Taylor,[REF] who suggested in 1908 (published in 1910) that the continents were moved into their present positions by a process of "continental creep" [REF].
Wegener was the first to use the phrase "continental drift" (1912, 1915)[REF][REF] (in German "die Verschiebung der Kontinente" - translated into English in 1922) and formally publish the hypothesis that the continents had somehow "drifted" apart.