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| How the mobilism debate was structured | |
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| Wegener and Taylor develop their theories of continental drift | |
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| Sub-controversies in the drift debate, 1920s-1950s | |
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| The mechanism sub-controversy: 1921-1951 | |
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| Arthur Holmes and his Theory of Substratum Convection, 1915-1955 | |
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| Regionalism and the reception of mobilism: South Africa, India and South America from the 1920s through the early 1950s | |
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| Regional reception of mobilism in North America: 1920s through the 1950s | |
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| Reception and development of mobilism in Europe: 1920s through the 1950s | |
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| Fixism's popularity in Australia: 1920s to mid 1960s | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Geomagnetism and paleomagnetism: 1946-1952 | |
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| British paleomagnetists begin shifting their research toward testing mobilism: summer 1951 to fall 1953 | |
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| Launching the global paleomagnetic test of continental drift: 1954-1956 | |
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| Runcorn shifts to mobilism: 1955-1956 | |
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| Enlargement and refinement of the paleomagnetic support for mobilism: 1956 through 1960 | |
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| Earth expansion enters the mobilist controversy | |
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| Development and criticism of the paleomagnetic case for mobilism: late 1950s and early 1960s | |
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| Major reaction against the paleomagnetic case for mobilism and early work on the radiometric reversal time scale: 1958-1962 | |
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| Extension and reception of paleomagnetic/paleoclimatic support for mobilism, 1960 to 1966 | |
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| Reception of the paleomagnetic case for mobilism by several notables, 1957 to 1965 | |
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| Seafloor spreading, the first version: Harry Hess develops seafloor spreading | |
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| Another version of seafloor spreading: Robert Dietz | |
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| The Pacific as seen from Scripps Institution of Oceanography: Menard's changing views about the origin and evolution of the ocean floor | |
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| Fixism and Earth expansion at Lamont Geological Observatory | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Reception of competing views of seafloor evolution, 1961-1962 | |
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| Explaining the origin of marine magnetic anomalies, 1958-1963 | |
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| Continuing disagreements over continental drift, the evolution of ocean floors, and mantle convection, 1963-1964 | |
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| Further work on the Vine-Matthews hypothesis and development of the idea of transform faults, 1964-1965 | |
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| Resolution of the continental drift controversy | |
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| Plate tectonics introduced | |
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| References | |
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