The Continental Drift Controversy: Volume 4, Evolution into Plate Tectonics (Paperback)

Introduction; 1. Reception of competing views of seafloor evolution, 1961?2; 2. Explaining the origin of marine magnetic anomalies, 1958?63; 3. Continuing disagreements over continental drift, the evolution of ocean floors, and mantle convection, 1963?4; 4. Further work on the Vine?Matthews hypothesis and development of the idea of transform faults, 1964?5; 5. Resolution of the continental drift controversy; 6. Plate tectonics introduced; References; Index.