| 单词 | continental drift |
| 例句 | In fact, he died at Princeton, New Jersey, in 1955 before Charles Hapgood’s rubbishing of continental drift theories was even published. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z If I wanted to persuade you of continental drift, for example, I would point you to the classic papers on paleomagnetism and we could then go and make our measurements in the field. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z In 1953 he confessed: "I have never succeeded in freeing myself from a nagging prejudice against continental drift; in my geological bones, so to speak, I feel the hypothesis is a fantastic one." A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z In 1950, a vote at the annual meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science showed that about half of those present now embraced the idea of continental drift. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Somewhere in these streets, plastic was invented, X-rays were discovered, continental drift was identified. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z In his popular and influential textbook Principles of Physical Geology, first published in 1944, Holmes laid out a continental drift theory that was in its fundamentals the theory that prevails today. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z And they will ask you what continental drift means, so there is at least that modicum of learning involved. Ice Age: Continental Drift: Franchise is Officially Frozen 2012-07-12T14:00:56Z They meet once a year to honor the memory of the German scientist Alfred Wegener, who proposed the theory of continental drift. In her memoir ‘M Train,’ Patti Smith opens up about her life and loves 2015-09-28T04:00:00Z But “continental drift” is right: the Ice Age movies are monsters abroad. Ice Age 4 Wins a Chilly Weekend Before The Dark Knight Rises 2012-07-15T21:16:03Z Just the very-big-picture stuff: creation of complex elements; continental drift; fire; human migration; industrialization. Television Review: ?History of the World in Two Hours? - Review 2011-10-05T22:13:50Z A passage like this inspires awe, but also treats the theory of continental drift as a commonplace, well past argument. Two Books Consider Earthquakes and Their Human Tolls 2017-12-27T05:00:00Z Because so little has been made in the United States about South America’s leftward continental drift, “South of the Border” is a valuable, if naïvely idealistic, introductory tutorial on a significant international trend. | 'South of the Border': Oliver Stone, Tour Guide 2010-06-24T23:25:00Z The theory of continental drift put a bomb under geological orthodoxy, but it also threatened more widely held assumptions. Has the science in Ice Age 4 gone adrift? 2012-07-16T07:00:04Z Sometimes the globe became a swirling mass of abstract colors and shapes, suggestive of continental drift. Review: ‘The Tempest Songbook’ Closes Gotham Chamber Opera’s Season 2015-03-29T04:00:00Z Wegener stumbles, however, in supplying a plausible engine for continental drift. How a 9.2 earthquake in Alaska in 1964 changed our understanding is explained in 'The Great Quake' 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z His investigations predated the discovery of DNA and the acceptance of Wegener’s theory of continental drift. Fine Lines: Vladimir Nabokov’s Scientific Art 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z In those days, nobody was buying continental drift. Q&A: Geologist David Montgomery on Noah's flood 2012-09-17T17:34:36Z "Major events like continental drift certainly influenced the diversification of mosquitoes," Wiegmann said. Study elucidates evolution of mosquitoes and their hosts 2023-10-18T04:00:00Z The ship is named after Tharp, a woman whose work charting the ocean floor, and revealing its peaks and valleys, laid the groundwork for the theory of continental drift. Small research schooner sets out on big Arctic mission 2023-05-15T04:00:00Z Marie Tharp, after the ocean cartographer, who helped document the phenomenon of continental drift. Stripping Confederate Ties, the U.S. Navy Renames Two Vessels 2023-03-11T05:00:00Z The surface expression of plate tectonics includes continental drift, recycling of the ocean floor, mountain building, rift zones, subduction zones, faults, earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions of lava from the interior. Astronomy 2016-10-13T00:00:00Z The established theories of global geology were permanentism and contractionism, but neither of these theories was able to explain some of the evidence that supported the idea of continental drift. Physical Geology 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z The process of collision created Pangea, the supercontinent envisioned by Wegener as the key component of his continental drift hypothesis. An Introduction to Geology 2017-01-01T00:00:00Z The revolutionary theory of continental drift advanced by Alfred Wegener in 1912, was rejected by mainstream geologists for four decades and only became popular after the mechanism of plate tectonics was recognized. Creative Thinking in both Science and the Arts Is Not for the Faint of Heart 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z Similarly, the revolutionary theory of continental drift advanced by Alfred Wegener in 1912, was rejected by mainstream geologists for four decades and only became popular after the mechanism of plate tectonics was recognized. The Empty Half of the Glass May Also Be Full 2020-11-14T05:00:00Z Wegener first conceived of continental drift in 1910 while examining a world map in an atlas, but it took 2 years for him to assemble sufficient data to propose the idea in public. Astronomy 2016-10-13T00:00:00Z Natural climate forcings, which have operated throughout geological time, include solar evolution and cycles, continental drift, continental collisions and mountain building, volcanism, orbital variations, and ocean current cycles. Physical Geology 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Wegener used correlation to help develop the idea of continental drift. An Introduction to Geology 2017-01-01T00:00:00Z Dr. Beaman said it happened as the seabed receded in step with Australia’s rocky footings moving downward over geologic time in a process known as continental drift. A Pinnacle of Coral Is Discovered in Australia’s Great Barrier Reef 2020-10-30T04:00:00Z An online interactive map created by a California-based paleontologist allows people to see how their hometown moved through hundreds of millions of years of continental drift. Map shows where your hometown was hundreds of millions of years ago 2020-08-31T04:00:00Z Although he did not present a mechanism, what were the key points of Alfred Wegener’s proposal for the concept of continental drift? Astronomy 2016-10-13T00:00:00Z In the diagram to the right the curve locations have been corrected taking continental drift into account. Physical Geology 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z For example, the continental drift hypothesis first proposed by Alfred Wegener in 1912 was initially dismissed. An Introduction to Geology 2017-01-01T00:00:00Z In 1915, for example, the German scientist Alfred Wegener, an applied astronomer and meteorologist, famously proposed his theory of continental drift. Which Experts Should You Listen to during the Pandemic? 2020-06-08T04:00:00Z Kinsman, a veteran Canadian diplomat, speaks of “continental drift” and “America’s evacuation of world leadership.” Is the coronavirus crisis reason to worry about how other nations view U.S. leadership? 2020-05-08T04:00:00Z Of course, thanks to continental drift and climate change, Antarctica is now buried under a mile or so of ice. Travel Down a Borehole into Antarctica’s Lake Whillans [Video] 2020-04-12T04:00:00Z As we’ll see in Chapter 10, the variations in these orientations provide a critical piece of evidence to the understanding of continental drift as an aspect of plate tectonics. Physical Geology 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z The next big advancement, and perhaps the largest in the history of geology, is the theory of plate tectonics and continental drift. An Introduction to Geology 2017-01-01T00:00:00Z But continental drift accounts for much more than this. Review | For the human race, geology is destiny 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z Based on magnetism in each suture’s rocks and a model of continental drift, they mapped their ancient latitudes to see which formed in the topics, and when. Rise of carbon dioxide–absorbing mountains in tropics may set thermostat for global climate 2018-12-28T05:00:00Z As Victorian science gave way to the twentieth century’s game-changing discoveries — from continental drift to other galaxies — British rule of the oceans ebbed. Explorers at sea: centuries of science afloat 2018-12-18T05:00:00Z Hess’s theory formed the basis for our ideas on sea-floor spreading and continental drift, but it did not deal with the concept that the crust is made up of specific plates. Physical Geology 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z More support for continental drift came from the puzzling evidence that glaciers once existed in normally very warm areas in southern Africa, India, Australia, and Arabia. An Introduction to Geology 2017-01-01T00:00:00Z But it wasn’t until the mid-twentieth century that the generic notion of “continental drift” was transformed into a full-bodied theory, complete with evidence of a subterranean engine driving these continental odysseys. The Earth’s Shell Has Cracked, and We’re Drifting on the Pieces 2018-12-18T05:00:00Z Jacobs and his colleagues were the first paleontologists to explore Angola through the lens of continental drift. Texas experts help present Smithsonian sea monsters exhibit 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z Was it in 1912, when Alfred Wegener came up with the idea of continental drift? Discoveries have awkward first dates 2017-10-01T04:00:00Z This paleomagnetic work of the 1950s was the first new evidence in favour of continental drift, and it led a number of geologists to start thinking that the idea might have some merit. Physical Geology 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z However, in the 1950s, evidence started to trickle in that made continental drift a more viable idea. An Introduction to Geology 2017-01-01T00:00:00Z But a shift, as big as continental drift, seems to be happening on the streets of Brooklyn. Lights, Camera, Color: New Film School Focuses on Industry’s Diversity 2017-02-28T05:00:00Z It wasn’t until 1912 that German geophysicist Alfred Wegener published his seminal paper on continental drift, and not until the 1960s that the mechanism of plate tectonics was deduced and finally accepted. A world without DNA and black holes: The state of science the last time the Chicago Cubs won the World Series 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z To our five-year-old ears, untutored in matters of melatonin and continental drift, this explanation sounded plausible, if a little abstract. Lessons About China and Race from a Detergent Ad 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z They think the Carboniferous coal measures were a consequence of continental drift. The rock that rocked the world 2016-01-18T05:00:00Z By the 1960s, scientists had amassed enough evidence to support the missing mechanism— namely, seafloor spreading—for Wegener’s hypothesis of continental drift to be accepted as the theory of plate tectonics. An Introduction to Geology 2017-01-01T00:00:00Z He would go on to fame for something much more, well, Earth-moving than tree hair: continental drift. A Fungus Is the Founder of the Hair Club for Trees 2015-10-19T04:00:00Z Such intuitive certainty characterized the discoverer of continental drift, Alfred Wegener, subject of science historian Mott Greene's much-anticipated biography. Geology: The continental conundrum : Nature : Nature Publishing Group 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z A portly hoofed animal about the size of a wild pig may help solve a mystery of evolution and continental drift that dates back 55 million years. Mammal fossil may tie together mammals from Madagascar and India Geologists of the 19th century concluded as much—though they knew nothing of continental drift. The rock that rocked the world 2016-01-18T05:00:00Z The reason seems to be that continental drift at that time formed a polar ocean even more cut off from the rest of the sea than today’s Arctic Ocean is. Aquatic alfalfa 2014-06-19T04:00:00Z The new study suggests that ratites did not evolve from populations of a common flightless ancestor that were separated by continental drift. Tiny Kiwi and Giant Elephant Bird Are Close Cousins 2014-05-27T04:00:00Z In the 1970s, Dr. Cracraft proposed that the answer was continental drift. A Theory on How Flightless Birds Spread Across the World: They Flew There 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z “The processes of our Earth’s interior placed incredible force, producing extreme temperature and pressure creating both ductile and brittle deformation of the underlying bedrock, and provides evidence substantiating Alfred Wegener’s once-ridiculed theory of continental drift.” Decade of Tunnel Excavations Brings Geologists Blessings From Below 2014-02-18T01:35:17Z From 1948 through 1983 he lent his talents to the magazine to help readers visualize and more fully understand a wide variety of topics, from continental drift to space travel and, of course, microbiology. 4 Ways to Venus: An Artists Assignment 2014-01-23T15:00:02Z Further discussion is not productive unless new evidence emerges, as it did for continental drift. Earth science: How plate tectonics clicked 2013-09-04T17:20:26.893Z But underlying the seasonal motion is a yearly motion that is thought to be driven in part by continental drift. Climate Change Has Shifted the Location of the North and South Poles 2013-05-14T22:45:00.413Z Now, with a level in Antarctica, Colbert and his colleagues uncovered yet another clue exposing the reality of continental drift. We have the global warming answer 2013-01-20T17:00:00Z These are the descendants of the plants that evolved on the ancient supercontient of Gondwana that are now broadly distributed across the Southern Hemisphere thanks to 180 million years of continental drift. Darwin's Neon Golf Balls 2013-01-15T18:45:06.010Z Then continental drift tore this family apart - transporting them to their current locations. Blind fish share common ancestor 2012-08-31T16:20:11Z An eminent professor of astronomy at the University of Cambridge, UK, Jeffreys rejected continental drift in the 1920s and plate tectonics in the 1970s. Earth science: How plate tectonics clicked 2013-09-04T17:20:26.893Z They laughed at Alfred Wegener, after all, when he proposed the notion of continental drift, and at Barry Marshall when he claimed that bacteria cause ulcers. Life Found in a Meteorite? Some Scientists Don't Buy It 2011-03-07T08:00:00Z Dr. Sykes said he thought that his adviser, Jack Oliver, was also not a believer in continental drift. Quakes, Tectonic and Theoretical 2011-01-16T04:58:24Z The continental drift in South Africa was a breakthrough for Europe, certainly, but one that disguised worrying signs of weakness beyond that imperious trio of teams with their fleet-footed, quick-thinking, highly skilled players. Europe enjoy continental drift in African World Cup 2010-07-12T12:02:00Z If the theory of continental drift was correct, there might not even be an American continent, it might still be joined to Europe. The Lost Warship By the time German geophysicist Alfred Wegener proposed continental drift in 1912, palaeontologists had long accepted that past connections between now-separate lands explained the spread of similar fossils and rock layers across them. Earth science: How plate tectonics clicked 2013-09-04T17:20:26.893Z Christmas Under the mining operations of the moon, continental drifts of cloud collude and a pelican scaffolds the air. Unmanned No wonder continental drift theories stay; Look at the neighbouring nations drift away! Truth and the Myth : Couplets quips |
| 随便看 |
英语例句辞典收录了117811条英语例句在线翻译词条，基本涵盖了全部常用单词及词组的例句翻译及用法，是英语学习的有利工具。