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| Title: | The continental drift controversy |
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Henry R. Frankel
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Cambridge [u.a.]
Cambridge Univ. Press
2012
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| adam_text | Contents
Foreword
by Mott
Greene
patie
χ
Acknowledgments
xiii
List of abbreviations
xv
Introduction
xvii
1
How the mobilism debate was structured
1
.1
The three phases of the continental drift controversy
1
.2
Solutions, theories, hypotheses, and ideas or concepts
4
.3
Problems and difficulties
5
.4
First and second stage problems
5
.?
Four examples of first stage problems
6
.6
Four examples of second stage problems
7
1.7
Difficulties
8
1.8
Unreliability difficulties
8
1.9
Anomaly difficulties
10
1.10
Missing-data difficulties
11
1.11
Theoretical difficulties
12
1.12
Difficulty-free solutions
13
1.13
The three research strategies and how they gave structure
to the debate
18
1.14
Specialization and regionalism in the Earth sciences
23
1.15
Why regionalism and specialization affected theory
preference during the
mobilist
debate
28
2
Wegener and Taylor develop their theories of continental drift
38
2.1
Introduction
38
2.2
Geological theorizing at the turn of the twentieth century
39
2.3
The contractionism of Suess
39
2.4
The reception of Suess contractionism and the difficulties
it encountered
42
2.5
Wegener the man
45
vi
Contents
2.6
Wegener s
1912
theory of partition and horizontal displacement
of continents, from idea to working hypothesis
50
2.7
Wegener presents and defends his drift theory in
1912:
his six major arguments
52
2.8
Wegener s further arguments in
1912 58
2.9
Taylor and his career
61
2.10
The emergence of Taylor s theory of creep and horizontal
displacement
62
2.11
Taylor s cosmogony and his notion of continental drift,
1898 63
2.12
Taylor s
1910
presentation and defense of his creep and
drift theory
64
2.13
Wegener and Taylor: the independence of their inspiration
69
2.14
Wegener and Taylor compared
71
2.15
Evolution of Wegener s theory,
1912-1922 75
3
Sub-controversies in the drift debate:
1920s-1950s 81
3.1
Introduction
81
3.2
Wegener s theory as presented in
1922 82
3.3
Biotic disjuncts and Wegener s
1922
explanation of them
87
3.4
Landbridgers revise and rebut
92
3.5
Mobilists rally increasing support for continental drift
98
3.6
The resurgence of American permanentism: isthmian links
107
3.7
Du Toit,
Simpson, and Longwell debate
112
3.8
Support for permanentism continues through the
mid-1950s 114
3.9
Questioning reliability and completeness of the biogeographical
record
122
3.10
Permo-Carboniferous
glaciation:
Wegener s
1922
solution; key
support for Wegener
127
3.11
Permo-Carboniferous
glaciation: fixists
attack Wegener s
solution and refurbish their own
129
3.12
Permo-Carboniferous
glaciation:
mobilists counterattack
132
3.13
The geodetic sub-controversy over the westward drift
of Greenland
139
3.14
Use of research strategies in the three sub-controversies
144
3.15 Koppen
and Wegener determine ancient latitudes
148
4
The mechanism sub-controversy:
1921-1951 159
4.1
Introduction
159
4.2
Wegener s
1922
mechanism
159
4.3
Wegener s mechanism attacked:
1921
through
1926 162
4.4
Van
der Gracht
modifies Wegener s mechanism
170
4.5
Daly s early attitude toward mobilism
171
4.6
Daly s
mobilist
theory presented in Our Mobile Earth
172
Contents
vii
4.7
Daly s defense of continental drift and his down-sliding
hypothesis
174
4.8
The reception of Daly s down-sliding hypothesis
179
4.9
Joly s thermal cycles and his ambivalence about mobilism
183
4.10
The Joly-van
der Gracht
mechanism
190
4.11
Fixists reject the Joly-van
der Gracht
mechanism
191
4.12
Mobilists show little sympathy for the Joly-van
der
Gracht
mechanism
196
5
Arthur Holmes and his Theory of Substratum Convection:
1915-1955 203
5.1
Introduction
203
5.2
Holmes scientific career
204
5.3
Holmes before becoming
a
mobilist 205
5.4
Holmes develops his mobilistic theory,
1928-1931 210
5.5
Reception of Holmes hypothesis of substratum convection
223
5.6
Work on convection currents during the
1930s 231
5.7
Reception of Holmes substratum convection by mobilists
Daly and
du Toit
238
5.8
Holmes reconsiders his substratum convection hypothesis,
1944 240
5.9
Reception of Holmes
1944
presentation of his convection
hypothesis
244
5.10
Geophysicists attitude toward convection around
1950 249
5.11
Holmes attitude toward mobilism in the early
1950s 251
5.12
Significance of Holmes convection hypothesis
253
5.13
Appeal to historical precedent: another manifestation of
standard research strategy one
255
5.14
Difficulty-free solutions, theory choice, and the classical stage
of the
mobilist
debate
257
6
Regionalism and the reception of mobilism: South Africa, India, and
South America from the
1920s
through the early
1950s 264
6.1
Introduction
264
6.2
Ken Caster and his attitude toward continental drift
266
6.3
Edna Plumstead and her support for continental drift
271
6.4
Alex du Toit:
his life and accomplishments
284
6.5
Du
Toit s early defense of continental drift
287
6.6
Du Toit
compares geology of South America and Africa
292
6.7
Du
Toit s Our Wandering Continents
297
6.8
The reception of Our Wandering Continents
306
6.9
Du
Toit s later contributions to mobilism
310
6.10
Lester King
314
6.11
Other South African mobilists
321
6.12
South African fixists
324
viii Contents
6.13
Favorable
reception of
mobilism
among Indian geologists
326
6.14
L. L. Fermor supports mobilism
335
6.15
The differing views of D.
N.
Wadia
and
M. S.
Krishnan
338
6.16
Favorable reception of mobilism in South America
345
6.17
Summary
346
7
Regional reception of mobilism in North America:
1920s
through the
1950s 349
7.1
Introduction
349
7.2
Previous studies on the reception of mobilism in North America
350
7.3
Permanence of ocean basins, continental accretion, geosynclines:
the North American experience, Marshall Kay and others
354
7.4
Antarctica breaks the chains of North American regionalism:
the experience of William Long
363
7.5
Long returns from Antarctica and becomes
a
mobilist 366
7.6
Antarctica again breaks the chains of North American
regionalism: the experience of Warren Hamilton
374
7.7
Hamilton finds new evidence of continental drift in Antarctica
378
7.8
Hamilton explains the origin of the Gulf of California in terms
of mobilism
384
7.9
Regionalism and Warren Hamilton
385
7.10
North American regionalism: a summary
388
8
Reception and development of mobilism in Europe:
1920s
through the
1950s 392
8.1
Introduction
392
8.2
Continental Europe: preliminary comments
393
8.3
Fixists from continental Europe:
Stille
and Cloos
394
8.4
The
1939
pro-fixist Frankfurt symposium
403
8.5
Some other
fixist
Europeans
409
8.6
Mobilists from continental Europe
411
8.7
Argand and his synthesis
412
8.8
Reception of Argand s synthesis internationally
419
8.9
Reception of Argand s synthesis among tectonicists of Western Alps
425
8.10
The peri-Atlantic Caledonides:
Wegmann 434
8.11
The peri-Atlantic Caledonides: mainly Holtedahl
439
8.12
Hercynides/Variscides and Caledonides:
F. E.
Suess
447
8.13
Mixed reception in Britain and Ireland
453
8.14
The Dutch East Indies: the changing attitude of the Dutch
474
8.15
Regionalists
and
globalists
488
9
Fixism s popularity in Australia:
1920s
to middle
1960s 496
9.1
Introduction
496
9.2
Geologists working on Australia s geology favorable to mobilism
497
Contents ix
9.3
Geologists against mobilism
503
9.4
Paleontologists working in Australia reject mobilism
511
9.5
Biologists working in Australia disagree about mobilism
522
9.6
Regionalism in Australia
544
9.7
Regionalism, rationality, and wisdom: an interim summary
545
References
554
Index
587
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