The Continental Drift Controversy 4 Volume Hardback Set

Volume 1: 1. How the mobilism debate was structured; 2. Wegener and Taylor develop their theories of continental drift; 3. Sub-controversies in the drift debate, 1920s–1950s; 4. The mechanism sub-controversy: 1921–1951; 5. Arthur Holmes and his Theory of Substratum Convection, 1915–1955; 6. Regionalism and the reception of mobilism: South Africa, India and South America from the 1920s through the early 1950s; 7. Regional reception of mobilism in North America: 1920s through the 1950s; 8. Reception and development of mobilism in Europe: 1920s through the 1950s; 9. Fixism's popularity in Australia: 1920s to mid 1960s; References; Index. Volume 2: Introduction; 1. Geomagnetism and paleomagnetism: 1946–1952; 2. British paleomagnetists begin shifting their research toward testing mobilism: summer 1951 to fall 1953; 3. Launching the global paleomagnetic test of continental drift: 1954–1956; 4. Runcorn shifts to mobilism: 1955–1956; 5. Enlargement and refinement of the paleomagnetic support for mobilism: 1956 through 1960; 6. Earth expansion enters the mobilist controversy; 7. Development and criticism of the paleomagnetic case for mobilism: late 1950s and early 1960s; 8. Major reaction against the paleomagnetic case for mobilism and early work on the radiometric reversal time scale: 1958–1962; References; Index. Volume 3: Introduction; 1. Extension and reception of paleomagnetic/paleoclimatic support for mobilism, 1960 to 1966; 2. Reception of the paleomagnetic case for mobilism by several notables, 1957 to 1965; 3. Seafloor spreading, the first version: Harry Hess develops seafloor spreading; 4. Another version of seafloor spreading: Robert Dietz; 5. The Pacific as seen from Scripps Institution of Oceanography: Menard's changing views about the origin and evolution of the ocean floor; 6. Fixism and Earth expansion at Lamont Geological Observatory; References; Index. Volume 4: Introduction; 1. Reception of competing views of seafloor evolution, 1961–1962; 2. Explaining the origin of marine magnetic anomalies, 1958–1963; 3. Continuing disagreements over continental drift, the evolution of ocean floors, and mantle convection, 1963–1964; 4. Further work on the Vine–Matthews hypothesis and development of the idea of transform faults, 1964–1965; 5. Resolution of the continental drift controversy; 6. Plate tectonics introduced; References; Index.