CHAPTER 12 THE EARTH MOVES
“invited the reader to join him in a tolerant chuckle . . .” Hapgood, Earth’s Shifting Crust, p. 29.
“they posited ancient ‘land bridges’ . . .” Simpson, p. 98.
“Even land bridges couldn’t explain some things.” Gould, Ever Since Darwin, p. 163.
“numerous grave theoretical difficulties.” Encylopaedia Britannica, 1964, vol. 6, p. 418.
“students might actually come to believe them.” Lewis, The Dating Game, p. 182.
“about half of those present . . .” Hapgood, p. 31.
“I feel the hypothesis is a fantastic one.” Powell, Mysteries of Terra Firma, p. 147.
“Interestingly, oil company geologists . . .” McPhee, Basin and Range, p. 175.
“Aboard this vessel was a fancy new depth sounder . . .” McPhee, Basin and Range, p. 187.
“seamounts that he called guyots . . .” Harrington, p. 208.
“probably the most significant paper . . .” Powell, Mysteries of Terra Firma, pp. 131-32.
“Well into the 1970s . . .” Powell, Mysteries of Terra Firma, p. 141.
“one American geologist in eight . . .” McPhee, Basin and Range, p. 198.
“Today we know that Earth’s surface . . .” Simpson, p. 113.
“The connections between modern landmasses . . .” McPhee, Assembling California, pp. 202-8.
“at about the speed a fingernail grows . . .” Vogel, Naked Earth, p. 19.
“one-tenth of 1 percent of the Earth’s history.” Margulis and Sagan, Microscosmos, p. 44.
“an important part of the planet’s organic well-being.” Trefil, Meditations at 10,000 Feet, p. 181.
“the history of rocks and the history of life.” Science, “Inconstant Ancient Seas and Life’s Path,” November 8, 2002, p. 1165.
“the whole earth suddenly made sense.” McPhee, Rising from the Plains, p. 158.
“a habit of appearing inconveniently . . .” Simpson, p. 115.
“many surface features that tectonics can’t explain.” Scientific American, “Sculpting the Earth from Inside Out,” March 2001.
“Wegener never lived to see his ideas vindicated.” Kunzig, The Restless Sea, p. 51.
“a bright young fellow named Walter Alvarez . . .” Powell, Night Comes to the Cretaceous, p. 7.
