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Continental drift. --- Paleogeography. --- Palaeogeography --- Physical geography --- Continental displacement --- Drift, Continental --- Drifting of continents --- Plate tectonics

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In this 1994 revised edition of his award-winning book on the Earth's history, Professor van Andel updates and expands his earlier text, drawing on a wealth of new knowledge that has become available in the last decade. This book examines the major changes in the Earth's history - the evolution of the solid Earth, the changing oceans and atmospheres and the progression of life - to render a historical account of the Earth's evolution. Much knowledge was gained in the previous decade, and while little material has been deleted, this new edition has grown to cover the key topics, including a chapter on how we can improve our grasp on geological time. Mindful of the current interest in global change, new sections describe the green-house effect and address its possible future ramifications. In prose that is both concise and compelling, New Views on an Old Planet: A History of Global Change makes Earth history appealing to the general reader. It will serve as an excellent text for introductory courses in the earth and environmental sciences.

Geology. --- Continental drift. --- Continental displacement --- Drift, Continental --- Drifting of continents --- Plate tectonics --- Geognosy --- Geoscience --- Earth sciences --- Natural history --- Geology

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Why did American geologists reject the notion of continental drift, first posed in 1915? And why did British scientists view the theory as a pleasing confirmation? This text, based on archival resources, provides answers to these questions.

Continental drift. --- Geology --- Geognosy --- Geoscience --- Earth sciences --- Natural history --- Continental displacement --- Drift, Continental --- Drifting of continents --- Plate tectonics --- History --- Continental drift --- 551.241 --- 551.241 Tectosphere. Thickness and structure of Earth's crust layers where folding and faulting occur --- Tectosphere. Thickness and structure of Earth's crust layers where folding and faulting occur

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Extensive field studies on the African and North American plates during this past decade have yielded a wealth of new data and ideas about rift basins and the origin of passive margins. New surface and subsurface basins have been identified; fossils abound in strata that only recently were considered barren; oil exploration is being actively pursued in continental strata of the Richmond-Taylorsville, Sanford and Newark basins, Late Triassic marine strata have been identified in Georges Bank off the coast of Massachusetts, and the roles of wrench tectonics, successor basins and listric normal

Continental drift --- Continentverschuiving --- Crevasses (Geologie) --- Derive des continents --- Rifts (Geology) --- Scheuren (Geologie) --- 551.241 --- Tectosphere. Thickness and structure of Earth's crust layers where folding and faulting occur --- 551.241 Tectosphere. Thickness and structure of Earth's crust layers where folding and faulting occur --- Continental margins --- Geology, Structural --- Margins, Continental --- Submarine topography --- Continental displacement --- Drift, Continental --- Drifting of continents --- Plate tectonics --- Atlantic Coast (North America) --- Atlantic Coast (Africa) --- Continental drift.

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Resolution of the sixty-year debate over continental drift, culminating in the triumph of plate tectonics, changed the very fabric of Earth science. This four-volume treatise on the continental drift controversy is the first complete history of the origin, debate and gradual acceptance of this revolutionary theory. Based on extensive interviews, archival papers and original works, Frankel weaves together the lives and work of the scientists involved, producing an accessible narrative for scientists and non-scientists alike. This third volume describes the expansion of the land-based paleomagnetic case for drifting continents and recounts the golden age of marine geology and geophysics. Fuelled by the Cold War, US and British workers led the way in making discoveries and forming new hypotheses, especially about the origin of oceanic ridges. When first proposed, seafloor spreading was just one of several competing hypotheses about the evolution of ocean basins.

Continental drift --- Academic disputations --- Research --- History --- Geomorphology. --- Landforms. --- Plate tectonics. --- Geology --- Earth & Environmental Sciences --- Dynamic & Structural Geology --- Continental displacement --- Drift, Continental --- Drifting of continents --- Plate tectonics --- Disputations, Academic --- Debates and debating --- Dissertations, Academic --- Paleomagnetism. --- Magnetostratigraphy --- Palaeomagnetism --- Paleomagnetics --- Remanent magnetism --- Geomagnetism --- Environmental Sciences --- Atmospheric Science