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By Henry R. Frankel

answer of the sixty-year debate over continental flow, culminating within the triumph of plate tectonics, replaced the very textile of Earth technology. This four-volume treatise at the continental flow controversy is the 1st whole historical past of the foundation, debate and slow attractiveness of this innovative idea. according to vast interviews, archival papers and unique works, Frankel weaves jointly the lives and paintings of the scientists concerned, generating an obtainable narrative for scientists and non-scientists alike. This fourth quantity explains the discoveries within the mid Sixties which resulted in the speedy recognition of seafloor spreading thought and the way delivery of plate tectonics quickly after with the geometrification of geology. even though plate tectonics didn't clarify the reason or dynamic mechanism of drifting continents, it supplied a powerful kinematic rationalization that keeps to encourage geodynamic study to the current day.

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