Paleomagnetism and confirmation of drift

Introduction 1. Geomagnetism and paleomagnetism: 1946-52 2. British paleomagnetists begin shifting their research toward testing mobilism: summer 1951 to fall 1953 3. Launching the global paleomagnetic test of continental drift: 1954-6 4. Runcorn shifts to mobilism: 1955-6 5. Enlargement and refinement of the paleomagnetic support for mobilism: 1956 through 1960 6. Earth expansion enters the mobilist controversy 7. Development and criticism of the paleomagnetic case for mobilism: late 1950s and early 1960s 8. Major reaction against the paleomagnetic case for mobilism and early work on the radiometric reversal time scale: 1958-62 References Index.