TY - BOOK ID - 85465009 TI - The continental drift controversy. PY - 2012 SN - 1107218799 1280647337 9786613633385 1139378155 1139375296 0511842368 1139376721 1139371304 1139379585 0521875048 1316616045 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Academic disputations KW - Continental drift KW - Continental displacement KW - Drift, Continental KW - Drifting of continents KW - Plate tectonics KW - Disputations, Academic KW - Debates and debating KW - Dissertations, Academic KW - History KW - Research KW - Environmental Sciences KW - Atmospheric Science UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85465009 AB - 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 first volume covers the period in the early 1900s when Wegener first pointed out that the Earth's major landmasses could be fitted together like a jigsaw and went on to propose that the continents had once been joined together in a single landmass, which he named Pangaea. It describes the reception of Wegener's theory as it splintered into sub-controversies and geoscientists became divided between the 'fixists' and 'mobilists'. ER -