Naomi Oreskes

Plate Tectonics (eBook, ePUB)

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

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 448
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Oktober 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429977916
• Artikelnr.: 56843505

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