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SUBMITTER: Irving E
PROVIDER: S-EPMC548542 | biostudies-literature | 2005 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20050131 6
In the early 1920s, the continental displacement theory of Wegener, latitude studies of Koppen and Wegener, and Argand's ideas on mountain building led to the first mobilistic paleogeography. In the 1930s and 1940s, many factors caused its general abandonment. Mobilism was revived in the 1950s and 1960s by measurements of long-term displacement of crustal blocks relative to each other (tectonic displacement) and to Earth's geographic pole (latitudinal displacement). Also, short-term or current d ...[more]