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9
. Ibid.
10
. C. Schuchert, “The Hypothesis of Continental Displacement,” in ibid., 113.
11
. Ibid., 139.
12
. P. Termier, “The Drifting of the Continents,” in
Annual Report of the Smithsonian Institu-
tion
(Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1925), 236.
13
. Ibid.
14
. Schuchert, “The Hypothesis of Continental Displacement,” 138.
15
. Ibid., 117.
16
. E. W. Berry, “Comments on the Wegener Hypothesis,” in
Theories of Continental Drift
,
194.
17
. N. Oreskes,
The Rejection of Continental Drift: Theory and Method in American Earth
Science
(New York: Oxford University Press, 1999), 192.
18
. Ibid., 193.
19
. C. Schuchert, “Gondwana Land Bridges”; and B. Willis, “Isthmian Links,” both in
Geolo-
gical Society of America Bulletin
43, no. 4 (1932).
20
. Newman, “American Intransigence,” 78.
21
. Oreskes,
The Rejection of Continental Drift
, 218.
22
. Newman, “American Intransigence,” 78.
23
. A. L. Du Toit and F. R. C. Reed,
A Geological Comparison of South America with South
Africa
(Washington, D.C.: Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1927), 109.
Continental Drift: Not Even Wrong
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. For a fine and much-needed biography of Arthur Holmes, see C. Lewis,
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One Man's Search for the Age of the Earth
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2
. A. Holmes, “Radioactivity and Earth Movements,”
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of Glasgow
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3
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4
. Holmes, “Radioactivity and Earth Movements,” 572.
5
. A. Holmes, “Radioactivity and Earth Movements,”
Nature
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6
. Holmes, “A Review of the Continental Drift Hypothesis,” 345.
7
. Ibid., 288.
8
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9
. Ibid., 238.
10
. Holmes, “Radioactivity and Earth Movements,” 579.
11
. Holmes, “A Review of the Continental Drift Hypothesis,” 579.
12
. Holmes, “Radioactivity and Earth Movements,” 600.
13
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(New York: Oxford University Press, 1999), 198.
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Debates of the 1920s,”
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