By U. Briegel,Wen-Jiao Xiao
Paradox, as outlined in a dictionary, is a press release opposite to permitted opinion. wide dialogue of paradoxes is fruitful for the development of technology usually, and geosciences particularly, has been amply established by way of Professor Hsu all through his individual profession. not just has he propelled the geoscience group ahead together with his arguable statements, a couple of his former scholars, who're presently in key positions at universities and in undefined, are influencing in an identical open minded approach the current day considering. The huge scope this reasoning encompasses is verified through the contributions to this publication, delineating paradoxes and difficulties within the fields of tectonics, uncomplicated and utilized geosciences, petrology, paleoceanography, paleoclimatology and paleogeography, kinematics and modelling.
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