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Nature, 1969 TODAY MOST EARTH SCIENTISTS accept continental drift as a geological fact. Relative movements between continents on a time scale of 108 years are necessary to explain many geological observations. The remarkable similarity in shape between the west coast of Africa and the east coast of South America has been recognized for nearly as long as accurate ...
Donald L. Turcotte, E. Ronald Oxburgh
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“Russell Banks goes Creole”: A Talk with the Author of The Book of Jamaica and Continental Drift
Transatlantica, 2008 This interview with Russell Banks, acknowledged author of The Book of Jamaica (1980) and Continental Drift (1985), amongst others, was conducted on May 27th 2007 by Kathleen Gyssels and Gaëlle Cooreman (University of Antwerp).
Kathleen Gyssels, Gaëlle Cooreman
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Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 2020 The onset and evolution of the middle to late Cenozoic “icehouse” world was influenced by the development of the global ocean circulation linking the Norwegian–Greenland Sea‐Arctic Ocean to the Atlantic Ocean.
T. A. Rydningen +5 more
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Genetic Structure in a Small Pelagic Fish Coincides with a Marine Protected Area: Seascape Genetics in Patagonian Fjords. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2016 Marine environmental variables can play an important role in promoting population genetic differentiation in marine organisms. Although fjord ecosystems have attracted much attention due to the great oscillation of environmental variables that produce ...
Cristian B Canales-Aguirre +3 more
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Darwin's continental drift [PDF]
Current Biology, 2009 Lisbon is grandly celebrating the Darwin anniversaries, but to the east in Turkey things are different.
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Boris Choubert: Unrecognized visionary geologist, pioneer of the global tectonics
BSGF - Earth Sciences Bulletin, 2018 This work is a review of Boris Choubert’s paper (1935), which was published in French under the rather devalorizing title: “Research on the Genesis of Palaeozoic and Precambrian Belts.” Despite its innovative content, this article had no impact either at
Kornprobst Jacques +14 more
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Revista da Faculdade de Letras. Série de História, 2020 As in most of the European right-wing political movements, the Catalan conservative groups, whether they were Spanish supporters and monarchists, or the powerful regionalist group of the Catalan League, allowed themselves to be caught by the discourse ...
Francesc Vilanova
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“Continental Drift”: Translation and Kimiko Hahn’s Transcultural Poetry
Journal of Transnational American Studies, 2012 In the context of the expanding discourse of transnational Asian American Studies, this essay studies Kimiko Hahn, particularly her engagement with East Asian traditions in her poetry, and shows how her work exemplifies a transcultural Asian American ...
Xiwen Mai
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Лëд и снег, 2020 We analyzed data on the spatial distribution (density) of large breaks (gaps) in the drifting sea ice cover in the Western Arctic for the period from October 2005 to September 2017, obtained through decoding of lowresolution images from the NOAA ...
L. N. Dyment, S. M. Losev
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Geodesy in Japan: legends and highlights
Earth, Planets and Space, 2020 Here, I review modern history of geodesy and geodynamics in Japan, highlighting a few episodes during the last two centuries. The review starts with the first measurement of the meridional arc length in Japan by Tadataka Ino (1745–1818) early in the ...
Kosuke Heki
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