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Die Entstehung der Alpen
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Suess's 1875 debut monograph on the origin of the Alps, a dense 168-page argument that the Alps formed by lateral compression rather than vertical uplift — a conclusion that foreshadowed plate tectonics by nearly a century. Şengör pairs it with Das Antlitz der Erde as the two essential Suess texts for understanding the birth of structural geology.
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Celal Şengör
Şengör pairs this 1875 debut monograph with Das Antlitz der Erde as the two essential Suess texts, noting its prescient argument for lateral compression in mountain-building a century before plate tectonics confirmed it.