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Continental Drift brings together within one volume a discussion of the geophysical evidence relating to horizontal movements in the earth's crust in its widest sense. This is not the time for a reappraisal of the work of German meteorologist Alfred Wegener, but it is hoped that this volume will stimulate a serious interest in a subject formerly considered by many earth scientists as already closed. The book contains 12 chapters and begins with a discussion of paleomagnetic evidence for continental drift and its geophysical cause. This is followed by separate chapters on of paleoclimatic evide

Continental drift. --- Continental displacement --- Drift, Continental --- Drifting of continents --- Plate tectonics

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Continents and Supercontinents surveys the origin of continents and the accretion and breakup of supercontinents through earth history. It also shows how these processes affected the composition of seawater, climate, and the evolution of life.

Continents. --- Continental drift. --- Plate tectonics. --- Continental displacement --- Drift, Continental --- Drifting of continents --- Plate tectonics --- Tectonics, Plate --- Geodynamics --- Earth (Planet) --- Crust.

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Continental drift. --- Geophysicists --- Continental displacement --- Drift, Continental --- Drifting of continents --- Plate tectonics --- Earth scientists --- Wegener, Alfred, --- Wegener, Alfred Lothar, --- 魏格纳,

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Continental drift. --- Geodynamics. --- Continental drift --- Geodynamics --- Dynamic geology --- Tectonophysics --- Geophysics --- Continental displacement --- Drift, Continental --- Drifting of continents --- Plate tectonics --- GEOPHYSIQUE --- GEODYNAMIQUE --- ISOSTASIE, DERIVE DES CONTINENTS, PLAQUES... --- PALEOGEOGRAPHIE

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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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