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245 0 0 _aPlate tectonics :
_ban insider's history of the modern theory of the Earth /
_cNaomi Oreskes, editor, with Homer Le Grand.
260 _aBoulder, Colo. :
_bWestview Press,
_c2001.
300 _axxiv, 424 p. :
_bill., maps ;
_c24 cm.
505 0 _aFrom 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.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [347]-407) and index.
650 0 _aPlate tectonics
_xHistory.
650 0 _aGeology, Structural
_xHistory.
700 1 _aOreskes, Naomi.
700 1 _aLe Grand, Homer.
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