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9780813339818

Plate Tectonics

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  • ISBN13:

    9780813339818

  • ISBN10:

    0813339812

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2002-01-01
  • Publisher: Westview Pr
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Summary

The definitive history of plate tectonics, told by the scientists who developed and assembled evidence for the theory

Author Biography

Naomi Oreskes, Ph.D. Stanford, is Associate Professor of History at the University of California, San Diego.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix
Naomi Oreskes
Homer Le Grand
Preface: History and Memory xi
Naomi Oreskes
Part I The Historical Background
From Continental Drift to Plate Tectonics
3(28)
Naomi Oreskes
Part II The Early Work: From Paleomagnetism to Sea Floor Spreading
Stripes on the Sea Floor
31(15)
Ron Mason
Reversals of Fortune
46(21)
Frederick J. Vine
The Zebra Pattern
67(19)
Lawrence W. Morley
On Board the Eltanin-19
86(9)
Walter Pitman
The Birth of Plate Tectonics
95(16)
Neil D. Opdyke
Part III Heat Flow and Seismology
How Mobile is the Earth?
111(17)
Gordon J. MacDonald
Heat Flow under the Oceans
128(20)
John G. Sclater
Locating Earthquakes and Plate Boundaries
148(7)
Bruce A. Bolt
Earthquake Seismology in the Plate Tectonics Revolution
155(14)
Jack Oliver
Part IV The Plate Model
Plate Tectonics: A Surprising Way to Start a Scientific Career
169(22)
Dan McKenzie
When Plates Were Paving Stones
191(10)
Robert L. Parker
My Conversion to Plate Tectonics
201(26)
Xavier Le Pichon
Part V From The Oceans To The Continents
Plate Tectonics and Geology, 1965 to Today
227(16)
John F. Dewey
When the Plate Tectonic Revolution Met Western North America
243(21)
Tanya Atwater
The Coming of Plate Tectonics to the Pacific Rim
264(24)
William R. Dickinson
From Plate Tectonics to Continental Tectonics
288(43)
Peter Molnar
Epilogue: Continents Really do Move
Plate Tectonics: A Martian View
331(16)
David T. Sandwell
Notes 347(60)
Further Reading 407(8)
Index 415

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