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drift drift
drift deposit of mixed clay, gravel, sand, and boulders transported and laid down by glaciers. Stratified, or glaciofluvial, drift is carried by waters flowing from the melting ice of a glacier. The flowing water sorts the particles, generally depositing layers of coarser particles nearer the point... Read more
plate tectonics plate tectonics
plate tectonics theory that unifies many of the features and characteristics of continental drift and seafloor spreading into a coherent model and has revolutionized geologists' understanding of continents, ocean basins, mountains, and earth history. Development of Plate Tectonics Theory The... Read more
Flat Earth Research Society International Flat Earth Research Society International
Flat Earth Research Society International Organization founded in 1800. Members were individuals whose outlook was zetetic, or characterized by a seeking for truth and the denial of "imaginary" theories. They relied only on provable knowledge and consequently believed that the "spinning ball"... Read more
continental drift continental drift
continental drift geological theory that the relative positions of the continents on the earth's surface have changed considerably through geologic time. Though first proposed by American geologist Frank Bursley Taylor in a lecture in 1908, the first detailed theory of continental drift was put... Read more
Alfred Lothar Wegener Alfred Lothar Wegener
Alfred Lothar Wegener , 1880-1930, German geologist, meteorologist, and Arctic explorer. Early in his life, he was on the staff of the aeronautical observatory at Lindenberg; was a professor of geophysics and meteorology at Hamburg from 1919 to 1924; was professor of meteorology at the Univ. of Graz... Read more
quantum speciation quantum speciation
quantum speciation Traditionally, the rapid speciation that can occur in small populations isolated from the large, ancestral population, and that are therefore subject to the founder effect and to genetic drift. More recently, the term has been assigned a central role in the theory of punctuated... Read more
John Tuzo Wilson John Tuzo Wilson
WILSON, JOHN TUZO(b. Ottawa, Canada, 24 October 1908;d. Toronto, Canada, 15 April 1993), geophysics, geology, plate tectonics, transform faults, hot spots.Wilson’s most significant work involved finding support for continental drift and seafloor spreading, especially with the development of the... Read more
Harry Hammond Hess Harry Hammond Hess
Hess, Harry Hammond (1906-1969) American geologist Harry Hammond Hess spent much of his career studying what the ocean floor was made of and where it came from. He was a renowned geologist whose interests and influence ranged from oceanography to space science. One of Hess's most important... Read more
George Washington De Long George Washington De Long
George Washington De Long , 1844-81, American arctic explorer, b. New York City, grad. Annapolis, 1865. In 1873 he was assigned to the Juniata, which was sent to the arctic to search for C. F. Hall 's expedition on the Polaris. In 1879, backed by the younger James Gordon Bennett and under the... Read more

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