Books, Brochures, and Chapters>Book:  Grabau , Amadeus William (1940), The rhythm of the ages, Retrieved on 2012-05-31
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    31 MAY 2012

     The Impossibility of Continental Drift

    Even more difficult to explain, than the breaking-up of a single mass into fragments, and the drifting apart of these blocks to form the foundations of the present-day continents, is the explanation of the original production of the single mass, or PANGAEA, by the concentration of the former holosphere of granitic sial into a hemisphere of compressed and crushed gneisses and schists. Creep and the effects of compression, due to shrinking or other causes, have been appealed to but this is hard...
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    It does sound crazy on the face of it.

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