Plate Tectonics
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Author | : Naomi Oreskes |
Publisher | : CRC Press |
Total Pages | : 448 |
Release | : 2018-10-08 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0429977913 |
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This book provides an overview of the history of plate tectonics, including in-context definitions of the key terms. It explains how the forerunners of the theory and how scientists working at the key academic institutions competed and collaborated until the theory coalesced.
Author | : Wolfgang Frisch |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 247 |
Release | : 2022-11-26 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 3030889998 |
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This textbook explains how mountains are formed and why there are old and young mountains. It provides a reconstruction of the Earths paleogeography and shows why the shapes of South America and Africa fit so well together. Furthermore, it explains why the Pacific is surrounded by a ring of volcanos and earthquake-prone areas while the edges of the Atlantic are relatively peaceful. This thoroughly revised textbook edition addresses all these questions and more through the presentation and explanation of the geodynamic processes upon which the theory of continental drift is based and which have led to the concept of plate tectonics. It is a source of information for students of geology, geophysics, geography, geosciences in general, general natural sciences, as well as professionals, and interested layman.
Author | : Lynn R. Sykes |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 342 |
Release | : 2019-06-04 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0231546874 |
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The theory of plate tectonics transformed earth science. The hypothesis that the earth’s outermost layers consist of mostly rigid plates that move over an inner surface helped describe the growth of new seafloor, confirm continental drift, and explain why earthquakes and volcanoes occur in some places and not others. Lynn R. Sykes played a key role in the birth of plate tectonics, conducting revelatory research on earthquakes. In this book, he gives an invaluable insider’s perspective on the theory’s development and its implications. Sykes combines lucid explanation of how plate tectonics revolutionized geology with unparalleled personal reflections. He entered the field when it was on the cusp of radical discoveries. Studying the distribution and mechanisms of earthquakes, Sykes pioneered the identification of seismic gaps—regions that have not ruptured in great earthquakes for a long time—and methods to estimate the possibility of quake recurrence. He recounts the various phases of his career, including his antinuclear activism, and the stories of colleagues around the world who took part in changing the paradigm. Sykes delves into the controversies over earthquake prediction and their importance, especially in the wake of the giant 2011 Japanese earthquake and the accompanying Fukushima disaster. He highlights geology’s lessons for nuclear safety, explaining why historic earthquake patterns are crucial to understanding the risks to power plants. Plate Tectonics and Great Earthquakes is the story of a scientist witnessing a revolution and playing an essential role in making it.
Author | : Xavier Le Pichon |
Publisher | : Elsevier |
Total Pages | : 315 |
Release | : 2013-10-22 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1483257274 |
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Developments in Geotectonics, 6: Plate Tectonics focuses on the exposition of the plate-tectonics hypothesis, as well as plate boundaries, stratification, and kinematics. The book first offers information on the rheological stratification of the mantle and kinematics of relative movements. Topics include lithosphere, asthenosphere, kinematics of finite motions, measurements of instantaneous movements, and worldwide kinematic pattern. The text then ponders on movements relative to a frame external to the plates and processes at accreting plate boundaries. Discussions focus on reference frames, paleomagnetic synthesis, creation of oceanic crust, and continental rifts. The publication elaborates on processes at consuming plate boundaries, including sinking plate model, structure of trenches and associated island arcs and cordilleras, and consumption of continent-bearing lithosphere. The text is a valuable source of data for readers interested in plate tectonics.
Author | : Allan Cox |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 418 |
Release | : 2009-07-08 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1444314211 |
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Palaeomagnetism, plates, hot spots, trenches and ridges are the subject of this unusual book. Plate Tectonics is a book of exercises and background information that introduces and demonstrates the basics of the subject. In a lively and lucid manner, it brings together a great deal of material in spherical trigonometry that is necessary to understand plate tectonics and the research literature written about it. It is intended for use in first year graduate courses in geophysics and tectonics, and provides a guide to the quantitative understanding of plate tectonics.
Author | : Arthur Newell Strahler |
Publisher | : Geobooks |
Total Pages | : 594 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Kent C. Condie |
Publisher | : Elsevier |
Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 1997-05-07 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 008051409X |
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This comprehensive text has established itself over the past 20 years as the definitive work in its fields, presenting a thorough coverage of this key area of structural geology in a way which is ideally suited to advanced undergraduate and masters courses. The thorough coverage means that it is also useful to a wider readership as an up to date survey of plate tectonics.The fourth edition brings the text fully up to date, with coverage of the latest research in crustal evolution, supercontinents, mass extinctions. A new chapter covers the feedbacks of various Earth systems. In addition, a new appendix provides a valuable survey of current methodology.
Author | : Jon Erickson |
Publisher | : Infobase Publishing |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2014-05-14 |
Genre | : Earth sciences |
ISBN | : 1438109687 |
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Plate Tectonics, Revised Edition fully explains the theory that provides a single guiding principle to the earth's geological history.
Author | : Kanani K. M. Lee |
Publisher | : No Starch Press |
Total Pages | : 40 |
Release | : 2014-09-14 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1593276338 |
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The Incredible Plate Tectonics Comic is a wild adventure in earth science. Follow Geo and his robot dog, Rocky, as they travel back in time to Pangea, surf a tsunami, and escape an erupting volcano—all in time for Geo’s first-period science test! The journey starts 200 million years ago and takes you to modern-day Hawai’i, the ocean floor, and deep inside the Earth. You’ll learn: –How scientists developed the theory of plate tectonics –Why the Earth shakes –What’s in the center of the Earth –How volcanoes can form islands The Incredible Plate Tectonics Comic will teach you about geology in a fun, lively, and visual way. Ages 8+. Recommended for grade 6 and up
Author | : William Glen |
Publisher | : Merrill Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 202 |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : |
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