The rejection of continental drift : theory and method in American earth science /

I. Not the Mechanism. 1. Two Visions of the Earth. 2. The Collapse of Thermal Contraction. 3. To Reconcile Historical Geology with Isotasy: Continental Drift. 4. Drift Mechanisms in the 1920s. II. Theory and Method. 5. From Fact to Theory. 6. The Short Step Backward. 7. Uniformitarianism and Unity....

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Main Author: Oreskes, Naomi (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 1999
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