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. Other volumes in this set:
Volume 1: Wegener and the Early Debate Volume 3: Introduction of
Seafloor Spreading Volume 4: Evolution into Plate Tectonics 4
Volume Set"
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