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The tectonic plates are moving! / Roy Livermore.
LIBRA QE511.4 .L58 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Livermore, Roy, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Plate tectonics--Popular works.
- Plate tectonics.
- Continental drift.
- Earth sciences--Popular works.
- Earth sciences.
- Genre:
- Popular works.
- Physical Description:
- 482 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2018]
- 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.
- "This book explains modern plate tectonics in a non-technical manner; showing not only how it accounts for phenomena such as great earthquakes, tsunami, and volcanic eruptions, but also how it controls conditions of the Earth's surface, including global geography and climate. ... Beginning with the publication of a short article in Nature by Vine and Matthews, the book traces the development of plate tectonics during two generations of the theory. First-generation plate tectonics covers the exciting scientific revolution of the 1960s and 1970s, its heroes and villains. The second generation includes the rapid expansion in sonar, and seismic satellite technologies during the 1980s and 1990s that provided a truly global view of the plates and their motions, and an appreciation of the role of the plates in the Earth's 'system.' The final chapters bring us to the cutting edge of the science: describing the latest results friom studies using technologies such as seismic tomography and high-pressure physics to probe the deep interior."--Back cover.
- Contents:
- Part I. First generation
- Probably the best theory on Earth
- The paving stone theory of world tectonics
- Poles apart
- Plate tectonics by jerks - Plate tectonics by creeps
- Part II. Second generation
- Scum of the Earth
- Continents and supercontinents
- All at sea
- Chilling out
- Ups and downs
- The final frontier.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliography (pages 447-478) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0198717865
- 9780198717867
- OCLC:
- 1005107025
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