ResearchGuides: History of the Geosciences: Continental Drift

Continental Drift

Alfred Wegener by Mott T. Greene
Call Number: 2nd Floor QE22.W26 G74 2015
ISBN: 9781421417127
Atlas of continental displacement : 200 million years to present
Call Number: G1046.C55 O9 1983
ISBN: 9780521258173
Continental Drift by S.K. Runcorn
Call Number: GB423.R8 1962
A Brief History of Geology by Kieran D. O'Hara
Call Number: QE11 .O33 2018
ISBN: 9781107176188
New Views on an Old Planet by Tjeerd H. Van Andel
Call Number: QE26.2.V36 1994
La creation et ses mysteres devoiles by Antonio Snider-Pellegrini
Call Number: QE501.S58 1858 LHL Rare Book Room
La genese des continents et des oceans by Alfred Wegener; Armand Lerner
Call Number: QE501.W395 1937 LHL Rare Book Room
The Continental Drift Controversy by Henry R. Frankel
Call Number: QE511.5.F73 2012
Gondwana Dispersion and Asian Accretion by Ian Metcalfe
Call Number: QE511.5.G6545 1999
Imaging, mapping and modelling continental lithosphere extension and breakup by G.D. Karner (editor)
Call Number: QE511.5.I52 2007
Wandering Continents and Spreading Sea Floors on an Expanding Earth by Lester C. King
Call Number: QE511.5.K53 1983
Supercontinent by Ted Nield
Call Number: QE511.5.N534 2007
The Rejection of Continental Drift by Naomi Oreskes
Call Number: QE511.5.O74 1999
Paleoreconstruction of the Continents by M. W. McElhinny; D. A. Valencio
Call Number: QE511.5.P35 1981
Drifting continents and colliding paradigms : perspectives on the geoscience revolution by John A. Stewart
Call Number: QE511.5.S73 1990
ISBN: 9780253354051
Continents in motion : the new earth debate by Walter Sullivan
Call Number: QE511.5.S85 1991
The Evolving Continents by Brian F. Windley
Call Number: QE511.5.W56 1995
Sea Floor Spreading and Continental Drift by J. Coulomb; R. W. Tanner (Translator)
Call Number: QE511.7.C68 1972
The Africa-South America Connection by Wilma George (Editor); René Lavocat (Editor)
Call Number: QH194.A42 1993

Maps of the World

Based on the Displacement Theory, these were the first reconstructions of the map of the world for three periods: Upper Carboniferous, Eocene and Older Quaternary. Image from Die Entstehung der Kontinente und Ozeane by Alfred Wegener, 1922.

Alfred Wegener

Alfred Wegener by Mott T. Greene
Call Number: 2nd Floor QE22.W26 G74 2015
ISBN: 9781421417127
Theory of continental drift; a symposium on the origin and movement of land masses by Waterschool van der Gracht
Call Number: GB60.A6 1926 Rare Book Room
In the History of Science Library
Thermodynamik der atmosphare by Alfred Wegener
Call Number: QC888.W4 1911 Rare Book Room
Alfred Wegener, the father of continental drift by Martin Schwarzbach
Call Number: QE22.W26 S39 1986
Ending in Ice : the revolutionary idea and tragic expedition of Alfred Wegener by Roger M. McCoy
Call Number: QE22.W26M33 2006
Alfred Wegener : Kommentiertes Verzeichnis der schriftlichen Dokumente seines Lebens und Wirkens by Ulrich Wutzke
Call Number: QE22.W26W8 1998
Die Entstehung der Kontinente und Ozeane by Alfred Wegener
Call Number: QE501 .W39 1922
The origin of continents and oceans by Alfred Wegener
Call Number: QE501.W39 1924 LHL Rare Book Room
In the History of Science Library

Arthur Holmes

Principles of physical geology by Arthur Holmes
Call Number: QE28.H6
Publication Date: 1946
The Story of the Earth in 25 Rocks by Donald R. Prothero
Call Number: QE31 .P7 2018
ISBN: 9780231182607
Petrographic methods and calculations by Arthur Holmes
Call Number: QE43.5.H65 1921 ESL
The nomenclature of petrology by Arthur Holmes
Call Number: QE425 .H68
Publication Date: 1920
The age of the earth by Arthur Holmes
Call Number: QE508 .H64 1913 LHL Rare Book Room
In the History of Science Library
The Dating Game :one man's search for the age of the Earth by Cherry Lewis
Call Number: QE508.L48 2000