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7
. U. Marvin,
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8
. C. E. Dutton, “On Some of the Greater Problems of Physical Geology,”
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9
. N. Oreskes,
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Science
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10
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11
. Oreskes,
The Rejection of Continental Drift
, 48.
12
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13
. Ibid., 226.
14
. See H. R. Frankel,
The Continental Drift Controversy
, vol. 1:
Wegener and the Early De-
bate
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012), 70, for a full discussion.
15
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A Very Trusting Man
1
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2
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3
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, vol. 1:
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(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012), 49.
4
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The Father of Contintal Drift
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5
. A. Wegener,
The Origin of Continents and Oceans
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6
. H. W. Menard,
The Ocean of Truth: A Personal History of Global Tectonics
(Princeton,
N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1986), 19.
7
. S. J. Gould,
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gical Time
(Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1987), 104.
8
. Wegener,
The Origin of Continents and Oceans
, 17.
9
. Ibid., 21.
10
. A. L. Du Toit and F. R. C. Reed,
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Africa
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11
. Ibid., 109.
12
. Wegener,
The Origin of Continents and Oceans
, 131.
13
. Ibid., 136.
14
. See R. H. Dott Jr., “Squantum 'Tillite,' Massachusetts—Evidence of Glaciation or
Subaqueous Mass Movements?”
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Dead on Arrival
1
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