The geometry of continental displacement and its application to Arctic geology: Eugen Wegmann’s earl...
The geometry of continental displacement and its application to Arctic geology: Eugen Wegmann’s early approaches published in the Geologische Rundschau in 1943
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Berlin/Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag
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Plate tectonics developed around 1965 as a powerful tool to describe the tectonic movements of the Earth’s crust. The article demonstrates that basically four already existing theoretical concepts—subduction, seafloor spreading, the application of Euler’s theorem and transform faults—had to be combined to arrive at the modern theory. Alfred Wegener...
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The geometry of continental displacement and its application to Arctic geology: Eugen Wegmann’s early approaches published in the Geologische Rundschau in 1943
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TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_1516756345
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1437-3254
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1437-3262
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10.1007/s00531-012-0857-1
