2015
DOI: 10.1139/cjes-2015-0040
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R.A. Daly’s early model of seafloor generation 40 years before the Vine–Matthews hypothesis: an outstanding theoretical achievement inspired by field work on St. Helena in 1921–1922

Abstract: Large-scale lateral mobility of the Earth's lithosphere (mobilism) was a hotly debated issue in Earth Sciences during some two decades following publication of Wegener's (1912) theory of continental displacement. The final acceptance of lithospheric mobility was brought about with the plate tectonics revolution during the late 1960s. Support for mobilism was rather popular in certain European countries during the 1920s, whereas the reactions in North America were mostly hostile. One of the very few influential… Show more

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