I don't remember the title, but when I was an undergraduate (~1988) my professor told us that our geology textbook was the first one to include the theory of plate tectonics as the 'standard theory'.
Apparently it was revolutionary.
There was even had a chapter on magnetic drift.
It's hard to imagine that there was a 'standard theory' before that.
somedaveguy t1_iqyoswb wrote
Reply to TIL a German scientist named Alfred Wegener was ridiculed in 1912 for advancing the idea that the continents were adrift. Ridiculed as having “wandering pole plague.” or “Germanic pseudo-science” and accused Wegener of toying with the evidence to spin himself into “a state of auto-intoxication." by Hot----------Dog
I don't remember the title, but when I was an undergraduate (~1988) my professor told us that our geology textbook was the first one to include the theory of plate tectonics as the 'standard theory'.
Apparently it was revolutionary.
There was even had a chapter on magnetic drift.
It's hard to imagine that there was a 'standard theory' before that.