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A 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 a

In 1915 Alfred Wegener's seminal work describing the continental drift was first published in German. Wegener explained various phenomena of historical geology,

In the early twentieth century, American earth scientists were united in their opposition to the new--and highly radical--notion of continental drift, even goin

This book describes the expansion of the land-based paleomagnetic case for drifting continents and recounts the golden age of marine geoscience.