Wegener's life and career, expeditions to Greenland, development of main ideas| reminiscences of Wegener by J. GEORGI| essay on continentaldrift and plate tectonics by I. B. COHEN| Wegener's principal publications : selected bibliography about
Spatial logic in paleogeography and the explanation of continentaldrift
The A. discusses the value placed on spatial logic and illustrates the continued importance of spatial logic through new morphologic evidence similar to that presented by Wegener (1912, 1966). He suggests a new theoretical model of continentaldrift
The study of temporal changes are emphasized over regional distributions. The climatic implications of continentaldrift theory and the changes in the Earth's radiation balance are discussed. (DLO).
Ciencias de la Tierra ; Climatología ; Deriva continental ; Epistemología ; Geofísica ; Interacción tierra-atmósfera ; Meteorología
The year 1912 is annus mirabilis for Earth sciences. In two crucial papers Alfred Wegener and Milutin Milanković independently set up revolutionary theories based on far-reaching visions of continentaldrift and climate orbital forcing
Cognitive continentaldrift: how attitudes can change the overall pattern of cognitive distances
Analysis of variance ; Attitude ; Behaviour ; Cognitive process ; Continentaldrift ; Distance ; Europe ; International relations ; Perception ; Regression analysis ; United States of America
Actitud ; Análisis de regresión ; Análisis de varianza ; Comportamiento ; Deriva continental ; Distancia ; Percepción ; Proceso cognoscitivo ; Relaciones internacionales
One of the founders of modern geography in China, Weng was a geologist whose contribution was largely in physiography. He was the first Chinese to introduce the Wengener's hypothesis of continentaldrift into China, published extensively
Late Holocene eolian drift sands in Drenthe (The Netherlands)
This thesis presents the results of an investigation of the geomorphology, the origin and the age of the drift sands in Drenthe, a province in the northern part of The Netherlands. - (AGD)
Micromorphology of the transition peat―Holocene drift sand deposits in the northern Netherlands
Micromorphological analysis of five sections, partly with a macroscopically traced gradual transition, partly with an abrupt boundary, shows that in all cases no hiatus occurred between the peat and the drift sand. Consequently the radiocarbon dates
of the upper part of the peat do not give a date postquem for the drift sands, but represent dates during the early phases of sand drifting.
The species-abundance curves are used to study the structure of drifting macroinvertebrate communities in small streams (discharge about 0.1 m/s) in comparison with the standing crop of the benthos. Both the benthic communities during periods
of stability and the diurnal drift ressemble the broken stick model of McArthur. Several kinds of perturbation, such as spates or organic pollution, or the nocturnal activity of drifting organisms induce deviations from the present model. These deviations
spread further downstream for the drifting communities than for the standing ones. So the structure of drifting communities, although very sensitive to variations in the environment, is well defined, in spite of the temporary instability of drifting
The East Antarctic sea-ice zone : ice characteristics and drift
In this paper sea ice interactions with atmosphere and ocean are illustrated by a summary of results from process studies over land-fast ice near Mawson, Antarctica. New data are then presented on the drift and characteristics (particularly ice type