Plate Tectonics: An Insider's History of the Modern Theory of the EarthNaomi Oreskes, Homer Eugene LeGrand Avalon Publishing, 26 dic 2001 - 424 páginas Can anyone today imagine the earth without its puzzle-piece construction of plate tectonics? The very term, "plate tectonics," coined only thirty-five years ago, is now part of the vernacular, part of everyone's understanding of the way the earth works.The theory, research, data collection, and analysis that came together in 1967 to constitute plate tectonics is one of the great scientific breakthroughs of the 20th century. Scholarly books have been written about tectonics, but none by the key scientists-players themselves. In Plate Tectonics, editor Naomi Oreskes has assembled those scientists who played key roles in developing the theory to tell - for the first time, and in their own words - the stories of their involvement in the extraordinary evolution of the theory.The book opens with an overview of the history of plate tectonics, including in-context definitions of the key terms that are discussed throughout the book. Oreskes explains how the forerunners of the theory, Wegener and du Toit, inspired how scientists working at the key academic institutions - Cambridge and Princeton Universities, Columbia University's Lamont Doherty Geological Observatory, and the University of California-San Diego's Scripps Institute of Oceanography – competed and collaborated until the theory coalesced in 1967. |
Índice
THE HISTORICAL BACKGROUND | 1 |
FROM PALEOMAGNETISM | 29 |
Reversals of Fortune | 46 |
The Zebra Pattern | 67 |
On Board the Eltanin19 | 86 |
The Birth of Plate Tectonics 95 | 95 |
HEAT FLOW AND SEISMOLOGY | 109 |
Heat Flow under the Oceans | 128 |
My Conversion to Plate Tectonics | 201 |
FROM THE OCEANS TO THE CONTINENTS | 225 |
When the Plate Tectonic Revolution Met Western | 243 |
The Coming of Plate Tectonics to the Pacific Rim | 264 |
From Plate Tectonics to Continental Tectonics | 288 |
CONTINENTS REALLY DO MOVE | 329 |
Notes | 347 |
Further Reading | 407 |
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America Bulletin Atlantic California Cambridge concept continental drift convection crest crustal Dan McKenzie deep deformation discovery earth sciences earth scientists earth's magnetic field earthquakes Ewing fracture zones Fred Vine Geological Society geologists geomagnetic Geophysical Research 73 geophysicists Global Tectonics gravity Harry Hess heat flow Heirtzler Herzen hypothesis idea Isacks Jason Morgan Journal of Geophysical kilometers Lamont lavas lithosphere magnetic anomalies magnetometer mantle marine Matthews McKenzie measurements Menard mid-ocean ridges miles mountain Nature North America observations ocean basins ocean floor ocean ridges oceanic crust Pacific paleomagnetic paper pattern physics Pitman plate boundaries plate motions plate tectonics polarity Princeton Raff reversals revolution rift rocks rotation Royal Society Runcorn San Andreas scientific sea floor spreading sedimentary sediments seismic seismology Society of America structure subduction surface survey Teddy Bullard theory tion transform faults trenches Tuzo Wilson University Press volcanic Walter Pitman Xavier Le Pichon
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Ending in Ice: The Revolutionary Idea and Tragic Expedition of Alfred Wegener Roger M. McCoy Vista previa restringida - 2006 |
Deep Time and the Texas High Plains: History and Geology Paul H. Carlson No hay ninguna vista previa disponible - 2005 |