Alfred Wegener's continental drift hypothesis received much hostile criticism and ridicule from the scientific community because of which of the following?

A) His correlation of fossils was false; they were different species.
B) The mechanism he proposed for the movement of the continents.
C) There is no evidence of past glacial activity in areas that are now tropical.
D) There was no correlation of rocks found in adjacent positions on matching continents


B

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