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Author: Henry R. Frankel
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2012-04-26
Total Pages: 545
ISBN-13: 0521875056
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDescribes the expansion of the land-based paleomagnetic case for drifting continents and recounts the golden age of marine geoscience.
Author: Henry R. Frankel
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2012-04-26
Total Pages: 545
ISBN-13: 1107377323
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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 second volume provides the first extensive account of the growing paleomagnetic case for continental drift in the 1950s and the development of apparent polar wander paths that showed how the continents had changed their positions relative to one another, more or less as Wegener had proposed. Paleomagnetism offered the first physical measure that continental drift had occurred and helped determine the changing latitudes of the continents through geologic time.
Author: Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory
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Published: 1972
Total Pages: 968
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Homer Eugene LeGrand
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1988-12-15
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9780521311052
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA historical account of the triumph of the global theory of plate tectonics and its implications for the "modern revolution in geology" of the 1960s and 1970s after fifty years of controversy and competition.
Author: Samuel Warren Carey
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Published: 1958
Total Pages: 396
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Naomi Oreskes
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 433
ISBN-13: 0195117336
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhy 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.
Author: Mott T. Greene
Publisher: JHU Press
Published: 2015-10-30
Total Pages: 693
ISBN-13: 142141712X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe book should be of interest not only to earth scientists, students of polar travel and exploration, and historians but to all readers who are fascinated by the great minds of science.--Henry R. Frankel, University of Missouri-Kansas City, author of The Continental Drift Controversy "Science & Education"
Author: University of Tasmania. Geology Department
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Published: 1958
Total Pages: 392
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Ron Miksha
Publisher: CreateSpace
Published: 2014-08-01
Total Pages: 330
ISBN-13: 9781497562387
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFifty years ago, no one could explain mountains. Arguments about their origin were spirited, to say the least. Progressive scientists were ridiculed for their ideas. Most geologists thought the Earth was shrinking. Contracting like a hot ball of iron, shrinking and exposing ridges that became mountains. Others were quite sure the planet was expanding. Growth widened sea basins and raised mountains. There was yet another idea, the theory that the world's crust was broken into big plates that jostled around, drifting until they collided and jarred mountains into existence. That idea was invariably dismissed as pseudo-science. Or "utter damned rot" as one prominent scientist said. But the doubtful theory of plate tectonics prevailed. Mountains, earthquakes, ancient ice ages, even veins of gold and fields of oil are now seen as the offspring of moving tectonic plates. Just half a century ago, most geologists sternly rejected the idea of drifting continents. But a few intrepid champions of plate tectonics dared to differ. The Mountain Mystery tells their story.
