viii, 246 pages : 22 cm

"A new English translation of the 1962 printing of the fourth revised edition of Die Entstehung der Kontinente und Ozeane published in 1929"--Title page verso

Reprinted in 2015

Includes bibliographical references (pages 218-232) and index

Historical introduction -- The nature of the drift theory and its relationship to hitherto prevalent accounts of changes in the earth's surface configuration in geological times -- Geodetic arguments -- Geophysical arguments -- Geological arguments -- Paleontological and biological arguments -- Paleoclimatic arguments -- Fundamentals of continental drift and polar wandering -- The displacement forces -- Supplementary observations on the sialsphere -- Supplementary observations on the ocean floor

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