1 Table of Contents: “...1: Why a New Hypothesis? -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Former and Current Concepts of Earth Dynamics...”

2 “... Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization INTRODUCTION The hypothesis of continental drift...”

3 Table of Contents: “... of Continents and Oceans -- VI. Orogenesis -- 6.1. Fundamentals -- 6.2. The Contraction Hypothesis -- 6.3...”

4 Table of Contents: “... regions -- Hypothesis testing -- Predictive analysis -- Numerical techniques -- Models and special...”

5 Table of Contents: “... Hypothesis -- Remanent magnetization of lavas and the magnetic field in the past -- periods of polarity...”

6 Table of Contents: “... and Discrimination from TRM -- The Thermoremanence Hypothesis and the Origin of Magnetization in Iron Meteorites...”

7 Table of Contents: “... to Data: Method of Moments -- 4.6 Parametric Hypothesis Testing: t and F tests -- 4.7 Nonparametric...”

8 “... in many diverse fields, from geology to paleobotany, present data that substantiate this hypothesis...”

9 “... that the drill hole is the ultimate test of a hypothesis. When surface exploration methods have been fully uti...”

10 Table of Contents: “... -- The problem -- Continental drift -- Submerged continents -- The hypothesis of permanence -- Trans-Oceanic...”

11 Table of Contents: “... -- 4.14 Competitively Interacting Communities and the Gaia Hypothesis -- 5. The Energetics of Biota -- 5.1...”