The question first considered by Wegener concerning the nature of the processes in the Earth bringing about continental drift and sea-floor spreading (or major displacements of the litosphere) in the last 100-200 myr, is probably the most important one in geoscience at the present time. The concept of plate tectonics has integrated the evidence for continental drift, sea-floor spreading and glo…
The impetus for publishing this set of articles was the realization that, year after year. I and my students at Stanford were making copies (with varying degrees of legibility and legality) of the same classic articles on plate tectonics and geomagnetic reversals. At first we did this because there was so little material on the subject available.