During the intense debates between fixism and mobilism,Chinese geologist J.S.Lee published“The Fundamental Cause of Evolution of the Earth’s Surface Features”in 1926 in the Bulletin of the Geological Society of Chi...During the intense debates between fixism and mobilism,Chinese geologist J.S.Lee published“The Fundamental Cause of Evolution of the Earth’s Surface Features”in 1926 in the Bulletin of the Geological Society of China,supporting mobilism.He attributed continental movements to the variations of the Earth’s rotation speed:when the rotation speed increases,it generates forces that compel the continents and seawater to move horizontally from the poles toward the equator and vice versa.It was on this idea that his Geomechanics was established in the following decades.展开更多
文摘During the intense debates between fixism and mobilism,Chinese geologist J.S.Lee published“The Fundamental Cause of Evolution of the Earth’s Surface Features”in 1926 in the Bulletin of the Geological Society of China,supporting mobilism.He attributed continental movements to the variations of the Earth’s rotation speed:when the rotation speed increases,it generates forces that compel the continents and seawater to move horizontally from the poles toward the equator and vice versa.It was on this idea that his Geomechanics was established in the following decades.
