This four-volume treatise on the continental drift controversy is the first complete history of the origin, debate and gradual acceptance of this revolutionary theory. Based on extensive interviews, ...

It took more than 50 years for Wegener’s theory to be accepted. One of the reasons was that it was difficult to work out how whole continents could move. It was not until the 1960s that evidence ...

According to this hypothesis, climates in many parts of ... According to many scientists, continental drift and ocean regression would have caused continents to become drier, cooler, and less ...

They constituted the first focused and rational argument for continental drift, but still they veered ... techniques were employed to prove this theory and ultimately, the correctness of ...