Notes - Four Revolutions in the Earth Sciences - page 259

3 . H. R. Frankel, The Continental Drift Controversy , vol. 2: Paleomagnetism and Confirma-
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4 . K. M. Creer and E. Irving, “Testing Continental Drift: Constructing the First Palaeomag-
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5 . See Frankel, The Continental Drift Controversy , 2:117.
6 . J. A. Clegg, E. R. Deutsch, and D. H. Griffiths, “Rock Magnetism in India,” Philosophical
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7 . Ibid., 429.
8 . S. Runcorn, “Palaeomagnetism of Sediments from the Colorado Plateau,” Nature 176
(1955): 506.
9 . S. K. Runcorn, “Paleomagnetic Comparisons Between Europe and North America,” Pro-
ceedings of the Geological Association of Canada 8 (1956).
10 . Frankel, The Continental Drift Controversy , 2:166.
11 . Ibid., 2:165.
The Final Confrontation
1 . R. H. Dott Jr., Eustasy: The Historical Ups and Downs of a Major Geological Concept
(Boulder, Colo.: Geological Society of America), vii.
2 . W. H. Munk and G. J. MacDonald, The Rotation of the Earth: A Geophysical Discussion
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3 . Ibid., 284.
4 . Professor Jeffrey Shallit has pointed out that Arthur Schopenhauer probably did not make
the remark. J. Shallit, “Science, Pseudoscience, and the Three Stages of Truth,” ht-
tps://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~shallit/Papers/stages.pdf .
5 . Munk and MacDonald, The Rotation of the Earth , 282.
6 . G. J. F. MacDonald, “Review of Runcorn, S.K., Ed. Continental Drift ,” American Geo-
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7 . H. R. Frankel, The Continental Drift Controversy , vol. 3: Introduction of Seafloor Spread-
ing (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012), 25.
8 . G. J. F. MacDonald, “How Mobile Is the Earth,” in Plate Tectonics: An Insider's History of
the Modern Theory of the Earth (Boulder, Colo.: Westview, 2001), 125-127.
9 . H. Jeffreys, The Earth: Its Origin, History, and Physical Constitution (Cambridge: Cam-
bridge University Press, 1959), 371.
10 . A. E. Nairn, Problems in Palaeoclimatology (London: Interscience, 1964).
11 . W. H. Bucher, “The Third Confrontation,” in Problems in Palaeoclimatology (London:
Interscience, 1964), 3.
12 . Ibid., 4.
13 . P. M. S. Blackett, “Introduction,” Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of Lon-
don. Series A, Mathematical and Physical Sciences 258, no. 1088 (1965): vii.
14 . Ibid.
15 . S. K. Runcorn, “Palaeomagnetic Comparisons between Europe and North America,”
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Mathematical and Physic-
al Sciences 258, no. 1088 (1965): 1.
16 . Ibid., 11.