DOI: 10.1007/s00531-012-0857-1
Scopus记录号: 2-s2.0-84878111182
论文题名: The geometry of continental displacement and its application to Arctic geology: Eugen Wegmann's early approaches published in the Geologische Rundschau in 1943
作者: Letsch D.
刊名: International Journal of Earth Sciences
ISSN: 14373254
出版年: 2013
卷: 102, 期: 4 起始页码: 1171
结束页码: 1180
语种: 英语
英文关键词: Continental drift
; Geological test
; Greenland
; Mercator projection
; Plate tectonics
; Spitsbergen
Scopus关键词: continental drift
; continental margin
; crustal structure
; displacement
; geometry
; plate motion
; plate tectonics
; seafloor spreading
; subduction zone
; transform fault
; Arctic
; Greenland
; Spitsbergen
; Svalbard
; Svalbard and Jan Mayen
英文摘要: Plate tectonics developed around 1965 as a powerful tool to describe the tectonic movements of the Earth's crust. The article demonstrates that basically four already existing theoretical concepts-subduction, seafloor spreading, the application of Euler's theorem and transform faults-had to be combined to arrive at the modern theory. Alfred Wegener, father of the theory of continental displacement, is often credited as the most direct forerunner of plate tectonics. However, none of the aforementioned concepts had been developed by him. The present article deals with the hitherto not duly credited contributions of the Swiss geologist Eugen Wegmann (1896-1982). He developed in a series of highly original papers published between 1943 and 1948 (one of them in the Geologische Rundschau), a critical test of the theory of continental displacement based on the regional geology of the Arctic. Furthermore, he gave a very concise account on the geometrical principles of drift movements. As a result, he developed for the first time-25 years before McKenzie and Parker's Nature 216:1276-1280, landmark paper on the Pacific (1967)-the geometrical basis to graphically test plate motion directions. However, his work has not yet received the credit it deserves, neither by scientist nor by historians of science. © 2013 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg. URL: https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84878111182&doi=10.1007%2fs00531-012-0857-1&partnerID=40&md5=e043783bc4e248833694aabd27a0b8ac
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标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/70561
Appears in Collections: 影响、适应和脆弱性 气候减缓与适应
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作者单位: Departement Erdwissenschaften, ETH Zürich, Sonneggstrasse 5, 8092 Zürich, Switzerland
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Letsch D.. The geometry of continental displacement and its application to Arctic geology: Eugen Wegmann's early approaches published in the Geologische Rundschau in 1943[J]. International Journal of Earth Sciences,2013-01-01,102(4)