Beside his hypothesis of continental drift, Frank Taylor (1910) correctly proposed that
A) the Moon was captured by Earth ~ 100 million years ago.
B) similar mountain ranges on either side of the Atlantic were produced by lateral movement of the continents.
C) the Mid-Atlantic Ridge was the zone along which the continents had separated.
D) that all of the southern hemisphere continents were once joined together.
E) the glacial deposits on Gondwana continents were formed by a single glacier.
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