The continental drift controversy

The continental drift controversy

by Frankel, Henry R.

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Title Statements

  • Full title :The continental drift controversy. / Henry Frankel.

Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:2012.

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The Physical Object

  • Description:xxii, 604 pages : : illustrations, maps ; : 26 cm

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9780521875042, 0521875048
  • oclc:ocn794294860
  • LC Classification:QE511.5
  • Dewey Decimal:551.136

Table of Contents

How the mobilism debate was structured -- Wegener and Taylor develop their theories of continental drift -- Sub-controversies in the drift debate, 1920s-1950s -- The mechanism sub-controversy : 1921-1951 -- Arthur Holmes and his Theory of Substratum Convection, 1915-1955 -- Regionalism and the reception of mobilism : South Africa, India and South America from the 1920s through the early 1950s -- Regional reception of mobilism in North America : 1920s through the 1950s -- Reception and development of mobilism in Europe : 1920s through the 1950s -- Fixism's popularity in Australia : 1920s to middle 1960s.

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Subjects

Academic disputations Academic disputations -- History -- 20t… Continental drift -- Research -- 20th c… Continents -- Dérive -- 20e siècle Disputations -- Histoire -- 20e siècle History

Writers

Frankel, Henry R.

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