The continental drift controversy

Machine generated contents note: 1. How the mobilism debate was structured; 2. Wegener and Taylor develop their theories of continental drift; 3. Sub-controversies in the drift debate, 1920s-1950s; 4. The mechanism sub-controversy: 1921-1951; 5. Arthur Holmes and his Theory of Substratum Convection,...

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1. Verfasser: Frankel, Henry R. (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge u.a. Cambridge Univ. Press 2012-
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Continental drift > Research > Academic disputations > History > Plattentektonik > Kontinentalverschiebung > Theorie > Geschichte
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Zusammenfassung:Machine generated contents note: 1. How the mobilism debate was structured; 2. Wegener and Taylor develop their theories of continental drift; 3. Sub-controversies in the drift debate, 1920s-1950s; 4. The mechanism sub-controversy: 1921-1951; 5. Arthur Holmes and his Theory of Substratum Convection, 1915-1955; 6. Regionalism and the reception of mobilism: South Africa, India and South America from the 1920s through the early 1950s; 7. Regional reception of mobilism in North America: 1920s through the 1950s; 8. Reception and development of mobilism in Europe: 1920s through the 1950s; 9. Fixism's popularity in Australia: 1920s to middle 1960s; Index.
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