Plate Tectonics: An Insider's History Of The Modern Theory Of The EarthCRC Press, 8 oct 2018 - 448 páginas This book provides an overview of the history of plate tectonics, including in-context definitions of the key terms. It explains how the forerunners of the theory and how scientists working at the key academic institutions competed and collaborated until the theory coalesced. |
Índice
FROM PALEOMAGNETISM TO SEA FLOOR | |
Reversals of Fortune | |
The Zebra Pattern | |
On Board the Eltanin19 | |
The Birth of Plate Tectonics | |
HEAT FLOW AND SEISMOLOGY | |
THE PLATE MODEL | |
When Plates Were Paving Stones | |
My Conversion to Plate Tectonics | |
FROM THE OCEANS TO THE CONTINENTS | |
When the Plate Tectonic Revolution Met Western North America | |
The Coming of Plate Tectonics to the Pacific | |
From Plate Tectonics to Continental Tectonics | |
CONTINENTS REALLY DO MOVE | |
Heat Flow under the Oceans | |
Locating Earthquakes and Plate Boundaries | |
Earthquake Seismology in the Plate Tectonics Revolution | |
Notes | |
Otras ediciones - Ver todo
Plate Tectonics: An Insider's History of the Modern Theory of the Earth Naomi Oreskes,Homer Eugene LeGrand Vista previa restringida - 2001 |
Plate Tectonics: An Insider's History Of The Modern Theory Of The Earth Naomi Oreskes Vista previa restringida - 2018 |
Plate Tectonics: An Insider's History Of The Modern Theory Of The Earth Naomi Oreskes Vista de fragmentos - 2003 |
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