THE WILSON CYCLE

WILSON, J. TUZO,

Did the Atlantic Close and Then Re-Open?

London, Macmillan & Co, 1966. Royal8vo. Bound in contemporary full cloth. In "Nature", Vol. 211, 1966. Bookplate to front free end-paper and library stamp to title page. A very fine and clean copy. pp. 676-81. [Entire volume: LV, (1), 1432 pp.].

First printing of Wilson's seminal paper in which he argues the possibility of continental drift before the break up of the once supercontinent Pangea.; "it was the very first time the new plate tectonics had been extended back to the pre-Pangaean Earth". (Nield, Supercontinent). The paper is wide considered one of the most important ever to be published in Nature.

Order-nr.: 46979