Plate Tectonics An Insider's History Of The Modern Theory Of The Earth [Paperback]

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.Preface: History and Memory -- The Historical Background -- From Continental Drift to Plate Tectonics -- The Early Work: From Paleomagnetism to Sea Floor Spreading -- Stripes on the Sea Floor -- Reversals of Fortune -- The Zebra Pattern -- On Board the Eltanin-19 -- The Birth of Plate Tectonics -- Heat Flow and Seismology -- How Mobile is the Earth? -- Heat Flow Under the Oceans -- Locating Earthquakes and Plate Boundaries -- Earthquake Seismology in the Plate Tectonics Revolution -- The Plate Model -- Plate Tectonics: A Surprising Way to Start a Scientific Career -- When Plates Were Paving Stones -- My Conversion to Plate Tectonics -- From the Oceans to the Continents -- Plate Tectonics and Geology, 1965 to Today -- When the Plate Tectonic Revolution Met Western North America -- The Coming of Plate Tectonics to the Pacific Rim -- From Plate Tectonics to Continental Tectonics An Evolving Perspective of Important Research, from a Graduate Student to an Established Curmudgeon -- Epilogue: Continents Really Do Move -- Plate Tectonics: A Martian View