One of the major objections to Wegener's theory, from a famous Stanford geologist, Bailey Willis, was that the continents _____.

A ) seemed to fit together too well and were not broken up along their edges, as they should be
B ) were on granite slabs that could not possibly float on the mantle
C ) had fossil deposits that varied through time and space
D ) had magnetic field reversals


A ) seemed to fit together too well and were not broken up along their edges, as they should be

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