Book contents
- The Continental Drift Controversy
- Dedication
- The Continental Drift Controversy
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 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 middle 1960s
- References
- Index
7 - Regional reception of mobilism in North America: 1920s through the 1950s
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 May 2012
Book contents
- The Continental Drift Controversy
- Dedication
- The Continental Drift Controversy
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 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 middle 1960s
- References
- Index
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- The Continental Drift Controversy , pp. 349 - 391Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2012