Naomi Oreskes

Plate Tectonics

An Insider's History Of The Modern Theory Of The Earth

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The term "plate tectonics", coined only thirty-five years ago, is now 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 here presented by those scientists involved.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 450
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. August 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 798g
• ISBN-13: 9780367317270
• ISBN-10: 0367317273
• Artikelnr.: 57733944

Autorenporträt

Naomi Oreskes

Inhaltsangabe

PART I THE HISTORICAL BACKGROUND
1 From Continental Drift to Plate Tectonics
PART II THE EARLY WORK: FROM PALEOMAGNETISM TO SEA FLOOR SPREADING
2 Stripes on the Sea Floor
3 Reversals of Fortune
4 The Zebra Pattern
5 On Board the Eltanin-19
6 The Birth of Plate Tectonics
PART Ill HEAT FLOW AND SEISMOLOGY
7 How Mobile is the Earth?
8 Heat Flow under the Oceans
9 Locating Earthquakes and Plate Boundaries
10 Earthquake Seismology in the Plate Tectonics Revolution
PART IV THE PLATE MODEL
11 Plate Tectonics: A Surprising Way to Start a Scientific Career
12 When Plates Were Paving Stones
13 My Conversion to Plate Tectonics
PART V FROM THE OCEANS TO THE CONTINENTS
14 Plate Tectonics and Geology
1965 to Today
15 When the Plate Tectonic Revolution Met Westem North America
16 The Coming of Plate Tectonics to the Pacific Rim
17 From Plate Tectonics to Continental Tectonics
EPILOGUE: CONTINENTS REALLY DO MOVE
18 Plate Tectonics: A Martian View