Peter and all,
Maybe US geologists rejected Wegener roundly rather than flatly?
I personally think that Wegener's childish cartoons of the world did
not help his case.
eric
>May I add to Al McGrew: Not only that many key ingredients were in place in
>the 1920ies, they were actually contained in Alfred Wegener's book The
>Origin of Continents and Oceans (Dover Publications ISBN 0-486-61708-4, US
>$ 8.95, reprint of an English translation of the 1929 German edition).
>
>Is it fair to say the "creationists" of their time were the majority of the
>scientific establishment that flatly rejected Wegener's theory?
>
>Peter
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