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

The resolution of the sixty-year debate over continental drift, culminating in the triumph of plate tectonics, changed the very fabric of Earth science. This fo

Describes the expansion of the land-based paleomagnetic case for drifting continents and recounts the golden age of marine geoscience.

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