Alfred Wegener's continental drift hypothesis states that:
a. the continents are stationary but the ocean basins move
b. all of the Earth's land was once joined into a single supercontinent.
c. the continents are pushed around on the surface by mantle convection.
d. the continents are stationary with respect to each other.
b
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