About this Item
This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,700grams, ISBN:9780813341323. Seller Inventory # 9417277
Bibliographic Details
Title: Plate Tectonics: An Insider's History of the...
Publisher: Westview Press
Publication Date: 2003
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: Good
About this title
Drawing on the memories of major theoreticians in the field, scientist and historian Naomi Oreskes offers a vivid history of just how that transformation occurred. She describes the early quest on the part of James Dana, Alfred Wegner, J. H. Hodgson, and other scientists to account for the mechanics of earthquakes and certain puzzling features of geomorphology, a quest widened and strengthened by the work of deep-ocean explorers who were able, beginning in the 1960s, to study tectonics at work far below the surface of the world's waters. Such advances, as pioneer Peter Molnar and others explain, did not immediately change the way geologists went about their work, but they quickly went on to revolutionize science--and then, as such things do, to become orthodox.
A useful reference for students of geology and the history of science, this book is also easily accessible to nonspecialists. --Gregory McNamee
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