Structure of the earth's crust and the spreading of the continents
According to the Wegener hypothesis, the continents originally formed a single block. This broke into sections in the Carboniferous, and, during the geologic periods that followed, the continents drifted apart. Wegener, as many others had done before him, originally conceived the idea that the simil...
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ftcaltechauth:oai:authors.library.caltech.edu:6m3jg-nta27 2024-06-23T07:53:20+00:00 Structure of the earth's crust and the spreading of the continents Gutenberg, Beno 1936-10-31 https://doi.org/10.1130/gsab-47-1587 unknown Geological Society of America https://doi.org/10.1130/gsab-47-1587 oai:authors.library.caltech.edu:6m3jg-nta27 eprintid:99969 resolverid:CaltechAUTHORS:20191120-162039413 info:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess Other Geological Society of America Bulletin, 47(10), 1587-1610, (1936-10-31) info:eu-repo/semantics/article 1936 ftcaltechauth https://doi.org/10.1130/gsab-47-1587 2024-06-12T01:44:57Z According to the Wegener hypothesis, the continents originally formed a single block. This broke into sections in the Carboniferous, and, during the geologic periods that followed, the continents drifted apart. Wegener, as many others had done before him, originally conceived the idea that the similarity in the coast lines of Europe-Africa and America indicated connection previous to the Carboniferous. It is to his credit, however, that he investigated in detail all the possible consequences of this hypothesis. He considered especially the present-day relative movements of parts of the earth's crust, and he started investigations of the movement of Greenland relative to Europe. He emphasized the importance of determining and explaining the changes in the land-bridge connections between the continents, which occurred from time to time, because of their bearing on the problem of continental origin and history. © 1936 Geological Society of America. Manuscript received by the Secretary of the Society, July 7, 1936. Read before the Cordilleran Section, April 18, 1936. Article in Journal/Newspaper Greenland Caltech Authors (California Institute of Technology) Greenland Geological Society of America Bulletin 47 10 1587 1610 |
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According to the Wegener hypothesis, the continents originally formed a single block. This broke into sections in the Carboniferous, and, during the geologic periods that followed, the continents drifted apart. Wegener, as many others had done before him, originally conceived the idea that the similarity in the coast lines of Europe-Africa and America indicated connection previous to the Carboniferous. It is to his credit, however, that he investigated in detail all the possible consequences of this hypothesis. He considered especially the present-day relative movements of parts of the earth's crust, and he started investigations of the movement of Greenland relative to Europe. He emphasized the importance of determining and explaining the changes in the land-bridge connections between the continents, which occurred from time to time, because of their bearing on the problem of continental origin and history. © 1936 Geological Society of America. Manuscript received by the Secretary of the Society, July 7, 1936. Read before the Cordilleran Section, April 18, 1936. |
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