La formazione dei continenti e degli oceani
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L’ipotesi della deriva dei continenti enunciata da Alfred Wegener nel 1912 ebbe subito vasta risonanza nei vari settori delle scienze della Terra (paleogeografia, biogeografia, paleontologia, paleoclimatologia, geologia strutturale, fisica terrestre).
Anche se il modello mobilista wegeneriano nella sua stesura originale non poteva essere accettato dai geofisici, contrastando il romanzesco navigare di una massa continentale a guisa di un iceberg nel mare con l’accertata rigidità della crosta terrestre quale si manifesta nei fenomeni sismici, tuttavia l’idea della deriva dei continenti, talora entusiasticamente accolta e talora avversata, e la serie impressionante di prove in suo favore
illustrate dal Wegener in questo volume conservano a tutt’oggi il loro valore scientifico.
Come scrive Marco Ciardi, nella nuova Postfazione di questa edizione, la lettura di La formazione dei continenti e degli oceani è ancora oggi essenziale «perché ci rende più consapevoli non solo di quale sia la storia del pianeta che abitiamo, ma di come dobbiamo relazionarci ad esso, per instaurare un corretto rapporto tra uomo e natura».
- ISBN: 8833936651
- Casa Editrice: Bollati Boringhieri
- Pagine: 336
- Data di uscita: 13-05-2021
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Everything transforms. As time rolls on, Earth and everything on it modify and revolutionize. Living things are born and die; species develop, flourish for a while, then evolve into new species or become extinct. The atmosphere, the sea, and even the solid rock of the planet’s crust change as well. Leggi tutto
Archaic in wording, which is not surprising, and certainly enjoyable to see how Wegener pieces together this theory. For a modern geologist it provides a window into a world where what we take for granted today had to be earned with proof and strenuous proofing. I found it inspirational to think tha Leggi tutto
If you are geologist or geographer, you must read this book for many reasons. First to discover what Wegner gives to the scientific community to interpret the earth's history including the formation of the mountain and oceans. Second, to know the scientific approach in its purest way. Wegner was unb Leggi tutto
Very thick science. But a good review of how Oceans, and their history, were thought of prior to the plate tectonics paradigm. In fact, it is tenable that without this book, plate tectonics would have never been possible as a hypothesis.
it is the origin of the lands and ocean
Given that there was significant opposition to his theory of continental drift theory because of the prevailing view that continents are fixed in place, Dr. Wegener used this book to build and document his case. For that matter, his theory didn’t gain wide acceptance until the field of plate tectoni Leggi tutto
This book is not an easy one to review. I read it for my Tectonics Seminar in graduate school as a first year research assistant. It was ahead of its time and it is officially outdated. Alfred Wegener's bombastic work on Continental Drift was not remotely well received by his contemporaries. He was
Wegener was a German geophysist and meteorologist who developed the hypothesis of Continental Drift in the early 20th century. Without a mechanism for Continental Drift to occur, it was discarded until the early/mid 1960s when it resurfacedunder a new name, with a mechanism, Plate Tectonics. This bo Leggi tutto
Amazing to go back in time and see how a man saw the world. The evidence was good, but better came later. The birth of an idea that was right all along.
fascinating
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