“…He published a comprehensive synthesis of his ideas in three volumes in five parts (Suess, 1883, 1885, 1888, 1901, 1909) entitled Das Antlitz der Erde (translated into English as The Face of the Earth ), one of the most fundamental texts of modern geology. Suess also coined the terms Laurentia, Caledonian Mountains, Variscan Mountains, Panthalassa, biosphere, lithosphere, hydrosphere, eustasy, foreland, hinterland, listric fault, horst and graben, today part of the established Earth sciences vocabulary and closely connected with plate tectonics and palaeogeography (see Şengör, 2014 a , 2015).…”