The cycles of revolution: how Wegener and Milanković changed the earth sciences by Aleksandar Petrović, Slobodan B. Marković

“…The year 1912 is annus mirabilis for Earth sciences. In two crucial papers Alfred Wegener and Milutin Milanković independently set up revolutionary theories based on far-reaching visions of continental drift and climate orbital forcing. …”
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Seeking the Universal amid Ruins by Joseph Cermatori

“… This paper revisits Walter Benjamin’s unpublished “Announcement of the Journal Angelus Novus,” one of relatively few texts Benjamin is known to have written in 1922, European modernism’s widely recognized annus mirabilis. …”
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Ophiolites in ocean-continent transitions: from the Steinmann Trinity to sea-floor spreading by Bernoulli, D, Jenkyns, H

“…Bradshaw (Eds), Submarine Geology and Geophysics, Colston Papers 17, Butterworths, London, 1965, pp. 317-333] finally eliminated the weaknesses in Wegener's hypothesis and, with the coming of the "annus mirabilis" of 1968, the concept of the geosyncline could be laid to rest. …”

Ophiolites in ocean-continent transitions: From the Steinmann Trinity to sea-floor spreading by Bernoulli, D, Jenkyns, H

“…Bradshaw (Eds), Submarine Geology and Geophysics, Colston Papers 17, Butterworths, London, 1965, pp. 317-333] finally eliminated the weaknesses in Wegener's hypothesis and, with the coming of the "annus mirabilis" of 1968, the concept of the geosyncline could be laid to rest. …”