Plate tectonics : an insider's history of the modern theory of the Earth / Naomi Oreskes, editor, with Homer Le Grand.
Publication details: Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 2001.Description: xxiv, 424 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cmISBN:- 0813339812
- QE511.5 .O74 2001
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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.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [347]-407) and index.
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