The Origin of Continents and Oceans 1867–1898

1867–1898

Commissioned at the end of the eighteenth century by famed art collector and author Thomas Hope

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Many carefully worked-out examples illuminate the text

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The Origin of Continents and Oceans 1867–1898Since its inception modern geology has been faced with an important group of problems: explaining parallel formations that are separated by great distances of sea; accounting for isolated life forms in widely separated areas (such as lemurs in Madagascar and India); explaining pre pleistocene glaciations, and similar problems. The usual explanation has been to assume the one time existence of land bridges (such as the hypothetical Lemuria) or