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Amadeus William Grabau
(9 Jan 1870 - 20 Mar 1946)
American geologist and palaeontologist.
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Science Quotes by Amadeus William Grabau (1 quote)
Even more difficult to explain, than the breaking-up of a single mass into fragments, and the drifting apart of these blocks to form the foundations of the present-day continents, is the explanation of the original production of the single mass, or PANGAEA, by the concentration of the former holosphere of granitic sial into a hemisphere of compressed and crushed gneisses and schists. Creep and the effects of compression, due to shrinking or other causes, have been appealed to but this is hardly a satisfactory explanation. The earth could no more shrug itself out of its outer rock-shell unaided, than an animal could shrug itself out of its hide, or a man wriggle out of his skin, or even out of his closely buttoned coat, without assistance either of his own hands or those of others.
— Amadeus William Grabau
The Rhythm of Ages (1940), 9-10.
See also:
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9 Jan - short biography, births, deaths and events on date of Grabau's birth. 
Principles of stratigraphy, by Amadeus W Grabau. - book suggestion.
At the heart of science is an essential balance between two seemingly contradictory attitudes--an openness to new ideas, no matter how bizarre or counterintuitive they may be, and the most ruthless skeptical scrutiny of all ideas, old and new. This is how deep truths are winnowed from deep nonsense. -- Carl Sagan
