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Table of Contents - Memoir 196

The large-wavelength deformations of the lithosphere: Materials for a history of the evolution of thought from the earliest times to plate tectonics

Edited by A. M. C. engör

Preface
Chapter I. Introduction
Two Kinds of Deformation of the Earth’s Lithosphere
Copeogenic and Falcogenic Structures: Definition
Chapter II. Flooding and Desiccation—Earliest Records and Interpretations
Chapter III. Two Kinds of Movement Caused by the Earth’s Interior at Its Surface: Plato and His Students
Chapter IV. The Middle Ages: Jean Buridan and His Pseudo-Isostasy
Chapter V. The Renaissance: Persistence of the Antique and Medieval Models in Tectonics
Chapter VI. The Dawn of Modern Geology: Descartes, Varenius, Steno, Hooke, and the Two Kinds of Deformation of the Earth’s Rocky Rind
Chapter VII. Scandinavia: Falcogeny in Action?
Chapter VIII. Kinds of Uplift in a Huttonian World and the Foreplay to the Craters of Elevation Theory
Chapter IX. Leopold Von Buch and the Development of the Theory of Craters of Elevation: Elevation and Subsidence in the Post-Huttonian World
Chapter X. Time of Transition from “Radial Theories” to “Tangential Theories”
Chapter XI. The Reinvention and Christening of the Concept of Geosyncline in America
Chapter XII. The Exploration of the American West: Falcogeny in the Plateau Country
Chapter XIII. Eduard Suess and His Contemporaries: The Uplift Controversy
Chapter XIV. Falcogenic and Copeogenic Events in the Twentieth Century
Chapter XV. J. Tuzo Wilson and the Mantle Plumes
Chapter XVI. Conclusions

Preface
Chapter I.	Introduction Two Kinds of Deformation of the Earth’s Lithosphere Copeogenic and Falcogenic Structures: Definition
Chapter II.	Flooding and Desiccation—Earliest Records and Interpretations
Chapter III.	Two Kinds of Movement Caused by the Earth’s Interior at Its Surface: Plato and His Students
Chapter IV.	The Middle Ages: Jean Buridan and His Pseudo-Isostasy
Chapter V.	The Renaissance: Persistence of the Antique and Medieval Models in Tectonics
Chapter VI.	The Dawn of Modern Geology: Descartes, Varenius, Steno, Hooke, and the Two Kinds of Deformation of the Earth’s Rocky Rind
Chapter VII.	Scandinavia: Falcogeny in Action?
Chapter VIII.	Kinds of Uplift in a Huttonian World and the Foreplay to the Craters of Elevation Theory
Chapter IX.	Leopold Von Buch and the Development of the Theory of Craters of Elevation: Elevation and Subsidence in the Post-Huttonian World
Chapter X.	Time of Transition from “Radial Theories” to “Tangential Theories”
Chapter XI.	The Reinvention and Christening of the Concept of Geosyncline in America
Chapter XII.	The Exploration of the American West: Falcogeny in the Plateau Country
Chapter XIII.	Eduard Suess and His Contemporaries: The Uplift Controversy
Chapter XIV.	Falcogenic and Copeogenic Events in the Twentieth Century
Chapter XV.	J. Tuzo Wilson and the Mantle Plumes
Chapter XVI.	Conclusions