Wegener's Proposal That the Continents Had Once Fit Together as a Single

question 19

Multiple Choice

Wegener's proposal that the continents had once fit together as a single supercontinent was rejected by geologists at the time because ________.

• A)Wegener could not provide a driving force
• B)the continents did not fit together tightly enough
• C)the fossil evidence was inconclusive
• D)the distribution of climatic belts did not make sense in that configuration

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