Evidence of widespread continental glaciation during Late Paleozoic can also be explained by a period of global Ice Age. This hypothesis was rejected by Wegener because:
a) He found evidence of land living reptiles in South America and Africa
b) He found fossil evidence of warm water corals and coal swamps that could not form during an Ice Age
c) He found that mountain chains across the Atlantic Ocean match
d) He found similar rock types on South America and Africa
e) He had no evidence to disprove it. He just wanted to reject any alternate explanation except his own.
Ans: b) He found fossil evidence of warm water corals and coal swamps that could not form during an Ice Age
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