James Lawrence Powell

Mysteries of the Deep

How Seafloor Drilling Expeditions Revolutionized Our Understanding of Earth History

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Produktbeschreibung

"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"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: MIT Press Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. März 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 209mm x 140mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 404g
• ISBN-13: 9780262048927
• ISBN-10: 0262048922
• Artikelnr.: 68279882

Autorenporträt

James Lawrence Powell

Inhaltsangabe

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