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

question 51

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 strong enough.
• 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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