Wegener investigated the many plant and fossil anomalies that did not fit comfortably into the standard model of Earth history and realized that very little of it made sense if conventionally interpreted.

魏格纳考察了许多植物和化石的反常现象，那些现象无法纳入地球历史的标准模型。他认识到，要是用常规的方法来加以解释，那简直说不通。