Shocks and Rocks: Seismology in the Plate Tectonics Revolution: Seismology in the Plate Tectonics Revolution : The Story of Earthquakes and the Great ... of the 1960s (Special Publications) - Softcover

Oliver, Jack

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0875902804 ISBN 13: 9780875902807

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, 1996

Synopsis

Published by the American Geophysical Union as part of the Special Publications Series, Volume 6.

During the decade of the 1960s, science of the solid earth underwent an astonishing and awesome upheaval. In just a few years, geoscientists constructed a new way of describing and understanding the dynamics of everchanging earth, past and present, and so found a route to explanation for how most, if not all, of the great features of the earth's surface that have harbored and plagued and enchanted humans throughout their existence came to be. Continents, ocean basins, mountain ranges, deep sea trenches, earthquakes, and volcanoes suddenly became explicable as consequences of earth movements that, on a global scale, have a remarkably simple and readily understandable pattern. The long-sought key to the ponderous and agonizingly slow movements of earth that, over millennia, have deftly shaped our surroundings was found during that decade, or so most scientists think today, more than a quarter of a century later.

Edition details

• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0875902804
• ISBN 13: 9780875902807
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 140