Abstract
THIS interesting book is a speculative discussion of the causes of motion of the earth's crust, which have led to great foldings and mountain building, and also, according to opinions to-day widely current, to large relative displacements of the continents. The discussion is from a purely geological viewpoint, and is entirely non-mathematical. It would appear from the bibliographical index that the author is not acquainted with so important a work, closely bearing upon his subject, as Jeffreys' recent book, “The Earth.” The author's conclusion is that the two primary causes of relative motion of the earth's outer layers are a tendency of the uppermost layers towards the equator, and of the subcrustal layer to flow polewards; on the second of these he differs from Wegener, who postulated a westerly drift of the continents as the cause co-operating with the drift towards the equator.
Der Bewegungsmechanismus der Erde dargelegt am Bau der irdischen Gebirgssysteme.
Dr.
Rudolf
Staub
Von. Pp. viii + 270. (Berlin: Gebrüder Borntraeger, 1928.) 18 gold marks.
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[Book Reviews]. Nature 122, 537–538 (1928). https://doi.org/10.1038/122537d0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/122537d0
