| Record Type: |
Electronic resources
: Monograph/item
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| Title/Author: |
Plate tectonics/ Naomi Oreskes, editor ; with Homer Le Grand. |
| Reminder of title: |
an insider's history of the modern theory of the Earth / |
| other author: |
LeGrand, H. E. |
| Published: |
Boulder, Colo. :Westview, : 2003., |
| Description: |
xxiv, 424 p. :ill., maps. |
| [NT 15003449]: |
pt. 1. The historical background: From continental drift to plate tectonics / Naomi Oreskes -- pt. 2. The early work : from paleomagnetism to sea floor spreading: 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 -- pt. 3. Heat flow and seismology: 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 -- pt. 4. The plate model: 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 -- pt. 5. From the oceans to the continents: 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 -- Epilogue : Continents really do move: Plate tectonics : a Martian view / David T. Sandwell. |
| Subject: |
Plate tectonics - History. - |
| Online resource: |
https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=100771An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click for information |
| ISBN: |
0585482012 (electronic bk.) |