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He actually described the continents as scraping across an ancient and immobile seafloor. This was deemed mechanically implausible and contributed greatly to the rejection of Continental Drift. If Al stuck with his detailed phenomenological approach, there may have been wider adoption of his detailed and careful observations.
Source?
Well, am geophysicist for 20+ years, and I teach this stuff, but the best source I remember reading is "The Rejection of Continental Drift: Theory and Method in American Earth Science" by Naomi Oreskes.
Roughly how often do you get enraged when you hear about people talking about parts of the world with certain energies?
Strange sensations referred to via vague metaphor? Absurd!