Why did scientists reject Wegener's idea about how continents moved from Pangea to their present locations?
A) Scientists did not believe in a fluid mantle.
B) Scientists did not believe in uplift of continents from the ocean floor.
C) Scientists did not believe that the continental lithosphere could be stronger than the oceanic lithosphere.
D) Scientists were not convinced by his puzzle-like matching of continents into Pangea.
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