Dover Publications, Date: 1966-06-01. Paperback. Good. Dover Publications ISBN 0486617084 9780486617084 [US]

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Dover Publications. Used - Good. Good condition. 4th printing,1966. Slightly dampstained. Stamped on page edges. (Geology, vintage books, world history, continental drift) Dover Publications ISBN 0486617084 9780486617084 [US]

ISBN10: 0486617084, ISBN13: 9780486617084, [publisher: Dover Publications, Incorporated] Softcover pp. 272
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ISBN10: 0486617084, ISBN13: 9780486617084, [publisher: Dover Publications Inc., New York] Softcover Paperback. 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); explaining pre-pleistocene glaciations, and similar problems. The usual explanation has been to assume the one-time existence of land bridges (such as the hypothetical Lemuria) or parallelisms or diffusion with lost intermediary steps. In 1915, however, one of the most influential and most controversial books in the history of science provided a new solution. This was Alfred Wegener's Entstehung der Kontinente, which dispensed with land bridges and parallel evolutions and offered a more economical concept. Wegener proposed that in the remote past the earth's continents were not separate (as now), but formed one supercontinent which later split apart, the fragments gradually drifting away from one another. Wegener created his supercontinent with attractive simplicity by tucking the point of South America into the Gulf of Guinea, coalescing North America, Greenland, and Europe, ...

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Dover Publications Inc., Date: 1966. Paperback. New. 272 pages. 8.75x5.50x0.75 inches. Dover Publications Inc. ISBN 0486617084 9780486617084 [GB]

ISBN10: 0486617084, ISBN13: 9780486617084, [publisher: Dover Publications Inc., New York] Softcover Paperback. 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); explaining pre-pleistocene glaciations, and similar problems. The usual explanation has been to assume the one-time existence of land bridges (such as the hypothetical Lemuria) or parallelisms or diffusion with lost intermediary steps. In 1915, however, one of the most influential and most controversial books in the history of science provided a new solution. This was Alfred Wegener's Entstehung der Kontinente, which dispensed with land bridges and parallel evolutions and offered a more economical concept. Wegener proposed that in the remote past the earth's continents were not separate (as now), but formed one supercontinent which later split apart, the fragments gradually drifting away from one another. Wegener created his supercontinent with attractive simplicity by tucking the point of South America into the Gulf of Guinea, coalescing North America, Greenland, and Europe, ...
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ISBN10: 0486617084, ISBN13: 9780486617084, [publisher: Dover Publications] Softcover
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