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The continental drift controversy
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ISBN: 9781316616048 9780521875042 9781316616062 9780521875059 9781316616123 9780521875066 9781316616130 9781107019942 9781139379595 1139379593 9780511843167 051184316X 9781139376730 113937673X 0521875056 9781139379601 1139379607 9781139025416 1139025414 9781139375313 1139375318 0521875064 9781139376747 1139376748 9781139095938 1139095935 9781139380324 113938032X 110701994X 9780511842368 1139366300 1107231191 1280773618 9786613684387 1139378899 1139376039 1139372041 1139377469 1139365649 1107225906 1280647353 9786613633408 1139378171 1139371320 1139365630 1107225892 1280647345 9786613633392 1139378163 113937530X 1139371312 1316616061 1316616126 1316616134 Year: 2016 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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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 three-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'"--Provided by publisher.


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The continental drift controversy.
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ISBN: 1107218799 1280647337 9786613633385 1139378155 1139375296 0511842368 1139376721 1139371304 1139379585 0521875048 1316616045 Year: 2012 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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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 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'.

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