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Drifting Continents and Shifting Theories
Cambridge University Press (1988)
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A historical account of the triumph of the global theory of plate tectonics and its implications for the "modern revolution in geology" of the 1960s and 1970s after fifty years of controversy and competition.Other Versions
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