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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