Alfred Wegener is well known for hypothesizing that:

a. Earth's surface is broken into several major lithospheric plates.
b. new oceanic crust is formed at subduction zones.
c. the magnetic poles have reversed on occasion during geologic time.
d. over time, the continents change their geographic position.
e. the inner core is molten.


D

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