Since its inception modern geology has been faced with an important group of problems: explaining parallel formations that are separated by great distances of sea; accounting for isolated life forms in widely separated areas (such as lemurs in Madagascar and India); explaining pre-pleistocene glaciations, and similar problems. The usual explanation has been to assume the one-time existence of land bridges (such as the hypothetical Lemuria) or parallelisms or diffusion with lost intermediary steps. In 1915, however, one of the most influential and most controversial books in the history of science provided a new solution. This was Alfred Wegener's Entstehung der Kontinente, which dispensed with land bridges and parallel evolutions and offered a more economical concept. Wegener proposed that in the remote past the earth's continents were not separate (as now), but formed one supercontinent which later split apart, the fragments gradually drifting away from one another. Wegener created his supercontinent with attractive simplicity by tucking the point of South America into the Gulf of Guinea, coalescing North America, Greenland, and Europe, rotating Australia and Antarctica up through the Indian Ocean, and closing the remaining gaps. Wegener then explained various phenomena in historical geology, geomorphy, paleontology, paleoclimatology, and similar areas of science in terms of this continental drift. To back up his revolutionary theory he drew upon a seemingly inexhaustible find of data. Later editions of his book added new data to refute his opponents or to strengthen his own views in the violent scientific quarrel that arose. Even today this important question remains undecided, and geologists are divided into strongly opposed groups about the Wegener hypothesis. At the moment it seems to be gaining steadily in acceptance. It is one of the two basic theories of earth history, and since it has often been misrepresented in summary, every earth scientist owes it to himself to examine its theories and data.

The Origin of Continents and Oceans (Dover Earth Science)

Science & Math

Wegener, Alfred

Earth Sciences

Dover Publications

Die Entstehung der Kontinente und Ozeane (German Edition)

Vogel, Andreas

de Gruyter

Die Entstehung der Kontinente und Ozeane

Biological Sciences

Borntraeger Gebrueder

This is the English translation (and German facsimile) of Wladimir Köppen and Alfred Wegener (1924): The Climates of the Geological Past (Die Klimate der geologischen Vorzeit), a landmark text of early paleoclimatological research, actually a textbook of paleoclimatology. Wegener is best known for his theory of continental drift (The Origin of the Continents and Oceans, 1915). Less widely known, but equally important, are the studies he conducted on the climates of the past (with his colleague and father-in-law, Wladimir Köppen), which they jointly published (this book). Only one edition of the book was published, but unfortunately, all - save a few private copies - were destroyed during the second World War, rendering the book essentially unavailable. This English translation makes Köppen and Wegener's landmark text accessible to the international climate research community. It also includes the Supplements and Corrections by ­Wladimir Köppen to this book, published in 1940, shortly before his death and a decade after Alfred Wegener's untimely death on Greenland. The translation (and the facsimile) have both been enhanced by subject indices, which the original book was lacking. The discussion of the course and causal relationship of climates and climate change in the geological past are of principal scientific interest. Important elements of the discussions herein stem from the close collaboration with Milutin Milankovitch (who contributed entire sections of text, but is not named as an author). Building on the principles of the Milankovitch frequencies allowed Köppen and Wegener for the first time, early in the last century to establish a precise time scale of Late Cenozoic glacial-inter­glacial cycles. More recently, the orbital parameters originally calculated by Milankovitch were refined using time series data from deep-sea sediments and ice cores. Furthermore, Milankovitch's cycles may be extrapolated into the future to predict climate change. This very book, in which Köppen and Wegener roll out their theory, is therefore an important publication which has early on shaped our understanding of how climate has evolved and continuously evolves in the course of time. This translation affords non-German-speaking scientists and laypersons alike access to the full and compelling arguments of climate change, carefully and readably laid out and argued. It is a must-read for anybody interested in climate change, be it from a historic or present point of view.

The Climates of the Geological Past - Die Klimate der geologischen Vorzeit: Reproduction of the original German edition and complete ... und komplette englische Neuübersetzung

Köppen, Wladimir

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind. Der Verlag stellt mit diesem Archiv Quellen für die historische wie auch die disziplingeschichtliche Forschung zur Verfügung, die jeweils im historischen Kontext betrachtet werden müssen. Dieser Titel erschien in der Zeit vor 1945 und wird daher in seiner zeittypischen politisch-ideologischen Ausrichtung vom Verlag nicht beworben.

Wind- und Wasserhosen in Europa (Die Wissenschaft) (German Edition)

Vieweg+Teubner Verlag

Professor Alfred Wegener war Vorstand der Deutschen Seewarte und Dozent für Geophysik an der Hamburgischen Universität. Sein hier wieder aufgelegtes Werk über die Entstehung der Kontinente und Ozeane war bahnbrechend für die Forschung auf diesem Gebiet und ist bis heute unbedingt lesenswert.

CT Salzwasser-Verlag GmbH & Company. KG

Professor Alfred Wegener war Vorstand der Deutschen Seewarte und Dozent für Geophysik an der Hamburgischen Universität. Sein hier wieder aufgelegtes Werk über die Entstehung der Kontinente und Ozeane war bahnbrechend für die Forschung auf diesem Gebiet und ist bis heute unbedingt lesenswert.   Nachdruck der längst vergriffenen Originalausgabe der zweiten Auflage von 1920.

History

Europe

Vero Verlag GmbH & Co.KG

Professor Alfred Wegener war Vorstand der Deutschen Seewarte und Dozent für Geophysik an der Hamburgischen Universität. Sein hier wieder aufgelegtes Werk über die Entstehung der Kontinente und Ozeane war bahnbrechend für die Forschung auf diesem Gebiet und ist bis heute unbedingt lesenswert.   Der Verlag der Wissenschaften verlegt historische Literatur bekannter und unbekannter wissenschaftlicher Autoren. Dem interessierten Leser werden so teilweise längst nicht mehr verlegte Werke wieder zugängig gemacht. Das vorliegende Buch ist ein Nachdruck der Originalausgabe von 1920.

Vero Verlag

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The Origin of Continents and Oceans (Dover Earth Science)

Die Entstehung der Kontinente und Ozeane (German Edition)

Die Entstehung der Kontinente und Ozeane

The Climates of the Geological Past - Die Klimate der geologischen Vorzeit: Reproduction of the original German edition and complete ... und komplette englische Neuübersetzung

Wind- und Wasserhosen in Europa (Die Wissenschaft) (German Edition)

Die Entstehung der Kontinente und Ozeane (German Edition)

Die Entstehung der Kontinente und Ozeane (German Edition)

Die Entstehung der Kontinente und Ozeane (German Edition)