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| Summary |
A witty, irreverent guide to the birth, development, and state-of-the-art of one of the most important theories in Earth Science. The book explains how modern plate tectonics accounts for phenomena such as great earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions, and how it controls conditions at the Earth's surface, including global geography and climate. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Cover; The Tectonic Plates are Moving!; Copyright; Note on the Title of this Book; Acknowledgements; Contents; Dedication; Introduction; Part I. First Generation; 1. Probably the Best Theory on Earth; The Year Plate Tectonics Began; Out of the Way, You Swine!; Pillow Talk; Snakestones and Steinmann's Trinity; A Decade of Dreams; Fame at Last!; Infinite Onions; Afterthought; 2. The Paving Stone Theory of World Tectonics; Sea-Floor Spreading Transformed; Plates in the Round; Forward to the Past; Pipes to the Deep Mantle; Fit or Bust; The Origin; Made in the USA; Don't Schoot the Messenger! |
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MaggotAfterthought; 3. Poles Apart; French Letter; Core Science; Reversals; Fatal Attraction; Mad Rise; Ken and Ted's Excellent Adventure; Getting the Drift; Indian Summer; Earlier Reconstructions; Climate of Opinion; The Exception; Afterthought; 4. Plate Tectonics by Jerks; Cold Snaps; Deep and Deeper; Gutenberg's Bible; The Diving Dutchman; Finding Fault; Going Down; Out of the Arc; More Surprises; Belts and Traces; Push-ups; Afterthought; 5. Plate Tectonics by Creeps; Disturbing Matter; Weighty Arguments; More Depressing Thoughts; Solid Evidence; Getting Warm; Holmes Solves the Mystery. |
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His Last BowPitch Fever; Convection Turned Upside-Down; Afterthought; Part II. Second Generation; 6. Scum of the Earth; Land Ahoy!; Suspect Terminology; Subduction Factories; Dropping Off; Thick LIPs; There and Back Again; The Reckoning; Afterthought; 7. Continents and Supercontinents; Collision Course; Everything Flows; Breaking-Up Is Hard to Do; Pangea Puzzles; Outside-In; Growing Pains; Zircons Are Forever; Industrial Revolution; Afterthought; 8. All at Sea; Slumbering Giant; Sound Science; Of Ships Sailing the Seas; Fabric of the Oceans; Faultless; Tubeworm Barbeque; Secret Chambers. |
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MegamullionsRemote Ridges; Making Space; Going Global; Afterthought; 9. Chilling Out; A Foreign Country; Supercomputers; Proxy Science; The Floodgates Open; Global Coiling; It's a Gas; Rise and Fall; Ultimate Causes; Afterthought; 10. Ups and Downs; Inner Space; Middle Earth; Rock Bottom; A Riddle Wrapped in a Crystal Inside a Diamond; Putting a Spin on It; One Lump or Two?; Thinking Inside the Box; Slab Graveyards; Piles on the Bottom; Lowest of the Low; The Anti-Crust; Death Warmed Up; Core Issues; Plumatics and Crackpots; Afterthought; 11. The Final Frontier; The LIPs of Venus. |
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Keeping a Lid on ItIt Cracks Me Up; Other Earths; Size Matters, or Maybe Not; In the Beginning; Consensus, of Sorts; Summing Up; What Has Plate Tectonics Ever Done for Us?; Afterthoughts; References; Index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Plate tectonics -- Popular works.
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Plate tectonics. |
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Popular works.
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Continental drift.
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Continental drift. |
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Earth sciences -- Popular works.
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continental drift. |
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SCIENCE -- Earth Sciences -- Geography. |
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Earth sciences. |
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SCIENCE -- Earth Sciences -- Geology. |
| Other Form: |
Print version : 9780198717867 |
| ISBN |
0191027685 (electronic book) |
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9780191027680 (electronic book) |
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9780191860492 |
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0191860492 |
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9780198717867 |
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0198717865 |
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