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READERS of NATURE have been served with good reviews and discussions on the Wegener hypothesis, and it may therefore be of interest to point out that, so far as it relates to the origin of the Atlantic Ocean, this hypothesis was anticipated by previous writers, more especially by Osmond Fisher and W. H. Pickering. Fisher's views are well known to students of geo-dynamics, and Wegener himself refers to papers by W. H. Pickering and F. B. Taylor; but only by reading the accounts given by these authors can one realise how completely they forestalled Wegener, so far as the origin of the Atlantic by the westerly drift of the Americas is concerned.
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CROOK, T. The Wegener Hypothesis and the Origin of the Oceans. Nature 111, 255–256 (1923). https://doi.org/10.1038/111255c0
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