Plate Tectonics: An Insider’s History of the Modern Theory of the Earth

Contents......Page 8
Acknowledgments......Page 10
Preface: History and Memory......Page 12
PART I: THE HISTORICAL BACKGROUND......Page 26
1 From Continental Drift to Plate Tectonics......Page 28
PART II: THE EARLY WORK: FROM PALEOMAGNETISM TO SEA FLOOR SPREADING......Page 54
2 Stripes on the Sea Floor......Page 56
3 Reversals of Fortune......Page 71
4 The Zebra Pattern......Page 92
5 On Board the Eltanin-19......Page 111
6 The Birth of Plate Tectonics......Page 120
PART III: HEAT FLOW AND SEISMOLOGY......Page 134
7 How Mobile is the Earth?......Page 136
8 Heat Flow under the Oceans......Page 153
9 Locating Earthquakes and Plate Boundaries......Page 173
10 Earthquake Seismology in the Plate Tectonics Revolution......Page 180
PART IV: THE PLATE MODEL......Page 192
11 Plate Tectonics: A Surprising Way to Start a Scientific Career......Page 194
12 When Plates Were Paving Stones......Page 216
13 My Conversion to Plate Tectonics......Page 226
PART V: FROM THE OCEANS TO THE CONTINENTS......Page 250
14 Plate Tectonics and Geology, 1965 to Today......Page 252
15 When the Plate Tectonic Revolution Met Western North America......Page 268
16 The Coming of Plate Tectonics to the Pacific Rim......Page 289
17 From Plate Tectonics to Continental Tectonics......Page 313
EPILOGUE: CONTINENTS REALLY DO MOVE......Page 354
18 Plate Tectonics: A Martian View......Page 356
Notes......Page 372
Further Reading......Page 432
B......Page 440
D......Page 441
G......Page 442
I......Page 443
M......Page 444
N......Page 445
P......Page 446
S......Page 447
V......Page 448
Z......Page 449