Continental drift my lecturers why he was not talking to us about continental drift and I was told, sneeringly, that if I could prove there was a force that could move continents, then he might think about it. The idea was moonshine, I was informed." As late as 1953 – just five years before Carey introduced the theory of plate tectonics – the theory of continental drift was rejected by the physicist Scheidegger on the following grounds. From the 1930s to the late 1950s, works by Vening-Meinesz, Holmes, Umbgrove, and numerous others outlined concepts that were close or nearly identical to modern
The Defence of Duffer's Drift was written by Albert J. Marckwardt and Michael Burgoyne. The book follows a young lieutenant through successive lessons while conducting stability and counterinsurgency operations in Iraq. The winter 2005 edition of the "Canadian Army Journal" contained the following praise: Paul Hoffman, in his sequel to The Left Hand of God, The Last Four Things, used the example of Duffer's Drift by name as an exercise for Thomas Cale to solve for a defensive position for The Redeemers against the more mobile Commandos of the Folk. The problem set for Cale is to discover how to defend such a position with