No abstract is available for this article.doi:10.1002/gj.980Adrian F. ParkJohn Wiley & Sons, Ltd.Geological Journal
Who proposed the theory of continental drift? Who discovered the Sahara Desert? Who named Pangea? Who discovered Mount Kilimanjaro? Who developed the theory of plate tectonics? Who discovered the ice age? Who discovered the Bering Strait?
When was continental drift proposed? Wegener first presented his idea of continental drift in1912, but it was widely ridiculed and soon, mostly, forgotten. Wegener never lived to see his theory accepted—he died at the age of 50 while on an expedition in Greenland. Only decades later, in t...
Fig. 1 Location of the Petit-Chasseur necropolis within Switzerland and relative position of the Early Bronze Age sites selected for the study: (1) Sion‘Petit-Chasseur III’; (2) Sion‘Sous-le-Scex’; (3) Vex‘Le Château’; (4) Salgesch‘Mörderstein’; (5) Rarogne‘Heidnischbü...
In consequentialism (including utilitarianism, where the benefits and harms are pleasures and pains), associated in its origins especially with Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill, the way to decide whether any proposed course of action is morally right or not is to weigh up all the anticipated ...
Who developed the theory of plate tectonics? Who created the first geologic map of England? Who proposed seafloor spreading? Where is Beringia located? What is the Beringia theory? What orogeny formed Pangea? Where is the oldest oceanic crust found?
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Who contributed to the theory of plate tectonics? Who discovered Macquarie Island? What is the purpose of a climate map? What is a synoptic weather map? Who discovered the Chicxulub crater? What is high and low pressure on a weather map?
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