Samuel Warren Carey

Australian geologist (1911-2002)

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Lived 1911–2002, aged 91Australia
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    1911–2002
    Aged 91
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Updated 2026-06-23

Samuel Warren Carey was an Australian geologist and a professor at the University of Tasmania. He was an early advocate of the theory of continental drift. His work on plate tectonics reconstructions led him to develop the Expanding Earth hypothesis.

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