"This book tells the story of how scientific ocean drilling, a crowning achievement of science and engineering in the 20th century, transformed our understanding of Earth's history"--
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Contents 1 Introduction 1 2 The Voyage of HMS Challenger 7 3 Coral Reefs: Rainforests of the Sea 23 4 Probing the Seafloor 33 5 Nothing Beats a Map 53 6 Do Seafloors Spread and Continents Drift? 65 7 Continental Drift to Plate Tectonics 77 8 Hotspots in the Mantle 97 9 When the Mediterranean Dried Up 113 10 The Glacial Theory 129 11 The Astronomical Pacemaker 143 12 Astrochronology 157 13 Crater of Doom 171 14 The Hot, Deep Biosphere 187 15 The Seventh Continent 199 16 Eocene Doomsday 209 17 Human Evolution 219 18 Looking Back and Ahead 231 Appendix: Vessels and Programs 239 Acknowledgments 241 Notes 243 Index 263
Contents 1 Introduction 1 2 The Voyage of HMS Challenger 7 3 Coral Reefs: Rainforests of the Sea 23 4 Probing the Seafloor 33 5 Nothing Beats a Map 53 6 Do Seafloors Spread and Continents Drift? 65 7 Continental Drift to Plate Tectonics 77 8 Hotspots in the Mantle 97 9 When the Mediterranean Dried Up 113 10 The Glacial Theory 129 11 The Astronomical Pacemaker 143 12 Astrochronology 157 13 Crater of Doom 171 14 The Hot, Deep Biosphere 187 15 The Seventh Continent 199 16 Eocene Doomsday 209 17 Human Evolution 219 18 Looking Back and Ahead 231 Appendix: Vessels and Programs 239 Acknowledgments 241 Notes 243 Index 263
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