Plate tectonics : an insider's history of the modern theory of the Earth / Naomi Oreskes, editor, with Homer Le Grand.
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| Language: | English |
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Boulder, Colo. :
Westview Press,
2001.
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| Physical Description: | xxiv, 424 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
| Format: | Book |
Contents:
- From continental drift to plate tectonics / Naomi Oreskes
- Stripes on the sea floor / Ron Mason
- Reversals of fortune / Frederick J. Vine
- The zebra pattern / Lawrence W. Morley
- On board the Eltanin-19 / Walter Pitman
- The birth of plate tectonics / Neil D. Opdyke
- How mobile is the earth? / Gordon J. MacDonald
- Heat flow under the oceans / John G. Sclater
- Locating earthquakes and plate boundaries / Bruce A. Bolt
- Earthquake seismology in the plate tectonics revolution / Jack Oliver
- Plate tectonics: a surprising way to start a scientific career / Dan McKenzie
- When plates were paving stones / Robert L. Parker
- My conversion to plate tectonics / Xavier Le Pichon
- Plate tectonics and geology, 1965 to today / John F. Dewey
- When the plate tectonic revolution met western North America / Tanya Atwater
- The coming of plate tectonics to the Pacific Rim / William R. Dickinson
- From plate tectonics to continental tectonics / Peter Molnar
- Plate tectonics: a Martian view / David T. Sandwell.