The Origin of Continents and Oceans
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272 pages
- Release Date
17 March 2003
Summary
A source of profound influence and controversy, this landmark 1915 work explains various phenomena of historical geology, geomorphy, paleontology, paleoclimatology, and similar areas in terms of continental drift.
Since its inception, modern geology has been faced with an important group of problems: explaining parallel formations that are separated by great distances of sea; accounting for isolated life forms in widely separated areas (such as lemurs in Madagascar and India); explain…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780486617084 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0486617084 |
| Author: | Alfred Wegener |
| Publisher: | Dover Publications Inc. |
| Imprint: | Dover Publications Inc. |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 17 March 2003 |
| Weight: | 298g |
| Dimensions: | 215mm x 136mm x 13mm |
| Series: | Dover Earth Science |
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Alfred Wegener
Alfred Wegener (1880-1930) was a German scientist, geophysicist and meteorologist. He is most notable for his 1912 theory of continental drift, which was not accepted until the 1950s, when numerous discoveries such as paleomagnetism confirmed his hypothesis.
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