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The Continental Drift Controversy (Hardcover, New)
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The Continental Drift Controversy (Hardcover, New)
Series: The Continental Drift Controversy 4 Volume Hardback Set, Volume 4
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Total price: R4,751
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The 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 fourth volume explains the discoveries
in the mid 1960s which led to the rapid acceptance of seafloor
spreading theory and how the birth of plate tectonics followed soon
after with the geometrification of geology. Although plate
tectonics did not explain the cause or dynamic mechanism of
drifting continents, it provided a convincing kinematic explanation
that continues to inspire geodynamic research to the present day.
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