The book should be of interest not only to earth scientists, students of polar travel and exploration, and historians but to all readers who are fascinated by t

A biography of the man who created the theory of continental drift.

A source of profound influence and controversy, this landmark 1915 work explains various phenomena of historical geology, geomorphy, paleontology, paleoclimatol

Why did American geologists reject the notion of continental drift, first posed in 1915? And why did British scientists view the theory as a pleasing confirmati

Ancient Supercontinents and the Paleogeography of Earth offers a systematic examination of Precambrian cratons and supercontinents. Through detailed maps of dri