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Article Category: Research Article
| Online Publication Date: 05 Nov 2007
Plate Tectonics and Biogeography in Historical Perspective
Plate Tectonics and Biogeography in Historical Perspective
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Page Range: 93 – 97
The uncertain relationship of plate tectonics and biogeography is but the most recent chapter of a history of geoteetonics and biogeography which extends back to the middle of the last century. This history is largely unknown to Anglophone earth scientists, since most of it unfolded in Germany, Switzerland, France and Austria-Hungary. An outline sketch of this history is offered.
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