Stories of the magnetic anomalies paralleling ocean ridges have provided partisans of continental go with the flow with decisive arguments. To take inventory of this significant query, my colleague Thellier and that i made up our minds within the early summer season of 1967 to make it the topic of the yearly seminar in the world physics for the varsity 12 months 1967-68. even supposing learn was once nonetheless constructing swiftly, the overall meeting of the foreign Union of Geodesy and Geophysics held in Switzerland in September, really a number of the conferences in Zurich lower than the auspices of the foreign Committee for the higher Mantle, looked as if it would verify that we had made no vital omissions. on the con clusion of the seminar, the place I were liable for many of the lectures, I resolved to jot down the current quantity for the non-specialized medical reader. The undertaking became out to be an awful lot extra formidable than I had notion. it's fairly an project these days to attempt to survey a swiftly starting to be topic, firstly a result of trouble of accumulating fabric; ebook delays at the moment are nearing twelve months, with the end result that experts speak principally via a selective distribution of stories, in addition to verbally in common colloquia. I warmly thank those that helped me in getting unpublished literature, specifically Xavier Le Pichon. having said that, a few crucial paintings got here to my wisdom purely in recent years.
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