Download or read book Our Wandering Continents an Hypothesis of Continental Drifting by Alex L Du Toit written by Alex L. Du Toit and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Our Wandering Continents written by Alexander Logie Du Toit and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1972 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Our wandering continents written by Alexander Logie Du Toit and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Our Wandering Continents an Hypothesis of Continental Drifting written by Alex L (Alexander Logie) Du Toit and published by Hassell Street Press. This book was released on 2021-09-09 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Our wandering continents written by Alexander L. Du Toit and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Our Wandering Continents An Hypothesis of Continental Drifting Etc written by Alexander Logie DU TOIT and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Our Wandering Continents written by Alexander Logie Du Toit and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Continental Drift Controversy Volume 1 Wegener and the Early Debate written by Henry R. Frankel and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-02-16 with total page 627 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive account of the early debate over Wegener's theory of continental drift, based on extensive interviews and archival material.
Download or read book The Continental Drift Controversy written by Henry R. Frankel and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-04-26 with total page 493 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes the expansion of the land-based paleomagnetic case for drifting continents and recounts the golden age of marine geoscience.
Download or read book The Rejection of Continental Drift written by Naomi Oreskes and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1999-04-01 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early twentieth century, American earth scientists were united in their opposition to the new--and highly radical--notion of continental drift, even going so far as to label the theory "unscientific." Some fifty years later, however, continental drift was heralded as a major scientific breakthrough and today it is accepted as scientific fact. Why did American geologists reject so adamantly an idea that is now considered a cornerstone of the discipline? And why were their European colleagues receptive to it so much earlier? This book, based on extensive archival research on three continents, provides important new answers while giving the first detailed account of the American geological community in the first half of the century. Challenging previous historical work on this episode, Naomi Oreskes shows that continental drift was not rejected for the lack of a causal mechanism, but because it seemed to conflict with the basic standards of practice in American geology. This account provides a compelling look at how scientific ideas are made and unmade.
Download or read book The Continental Drift Controversy written by Henry R. Frankel and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-04-26 with total page 627 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the expansion of the land-based paleomagnetic case for drifting continents and recounts the golden age of marine geoscience.
Download or read book Drifting Continents and Shifting Theories written by Homer Eugene LeGrand and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1988-12-15 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A historical account of the triumph of the global theory of plate tectonics and its implications for the "modern revolution in geology" of the 1960s and 1970s after fifty years of controversy and competition.
Download or read book Africa Forms the Key written by Suryakanthie Chetty and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-01-04 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the work of prominent South African geologist Alex Du Toit as a means of understanding the debate around continental drift both in segregation-era South Africa and internationally. It contextualises Du Toit’s work within a particularly formative period of South African science, from the paleoanthropological discoveries that sparked debates about the origins of humankind to Jan Smuts’ own theory of holism. Beyond South African scientific discoveries, the book sets Du Toit’s work against a backdrop of ideological struggles over space, both domestically in terms of segregation and nationalism, as well as internationally as South Africa sought to assert its position within the Commonwealth. These debates were embodied by Du Toit’s work on the theory of continental drift, which put Africa – and South Africa – at the centre geologically and geographically. The author also focuses on the divisions in geology caused by drift theory, tracing the vigorous intellectual debate and dissent indicative of the ideological milieu within which scientific thought is constructed. It traces the history of continental drift from its inception in the nineteenth century and later work of Alfred Wegener, which was both elaborated upon and substantiated by Du Toit. The study further focuses on Du Toit’s research on continental drift in South African and South America, and the geological, fossil and climatological evidence used to bolster this theory.
Download or read book Marine Science written by Christina Reed and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicles the history of marine science from 1901, documenting the significant discoveries of the 20th century by notable marine and other scientists.
Download or read book The Scientific Imagination in South Africa written by William Beinart and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-05-20 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An innovative three hundred year exploration of the social and political contexts of science and the scientific imagination in South Africa.
Download or read book Continental Drift the Evolution of a Concept written by Ursula B. Marvin and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the changing theories about continental drift due to the advances in seismology and experimental studies of the behavior of rocks under high pressure. Continental stability was the prevailing scientific view until the late 1960s, when geologists throughout the world became convinced that crustal plates, both continental and oceanic, have moved over many degrees of latitude and longitude since the Cretaceous period.
Download or read book Alex L Du Toit Memorial Lectures written by Geological Society of South Africa and published by . This book was released on 1950* with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
