TY  - BOOK
AU  - Oreskes,Naomi
AU  - Le Grand,Homer
TI  - Plate tectonics: an insider's history of the modern theory of the Earth 
SN  - 0813339812
AV  - QE511.5 .O74 2001
PY  - 2001///
CY  - Boulder, Colo.
PB  - Westview Press
KW  - Plate tectonics
KW  - History
KW  - Geology, Structural
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [347]-407) and index; 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
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