The Origin of Continents and OceansSince 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. |
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Contents
Historical Introduction | 1 |
The Nature of the Drift Theory and Its Relationship to Hitherto Prevalent Accounts of Changes in the Earths Surface Configuration in Geological Ti... | 5 |
Geodetic Arguments | 23 |
Geophysical Arguments | 35 |
Geological Arguments | 61 |
Palaeontological and Biological Arguments | 97 |
Palaeoclimatic Arguments | 121 |
Fundamentals of Continental Drift and Polar Wandering | 147 |