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Soft cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: None as Issued. First Edition, First Printing. BRAND NEW & Collectible. Stated First Edition, First Printing. 8th volume in the Nobel Conference series. Anthology of papers delivered Oct 4 - 5th, 1988 on earth sciences at Gustavus Adolphus College. Contents, each followed by panel discussion, are: 1, Plate Tectonics (Jack Oliver); 2, The Pacific Rim: Plate Tectonics, Continental Growth, & Geologic Hazards (W.G. Ernst); 3, The Restless Universe (David Ray Griffin); 4, North America (Don L. Anderson); 5, Some Controls That Greatly Affect Surface Responses to Mantle Convection Beneath Continents (J. Tuzo Wilson); 6, Catastrophes & the History of Life on Earth (David M. Raup); and, 7, The Future of Earth Sciences. …

1st Ed., No. XXIV in the Nobel Conference Books series. XV, (3), 201 PP tables and 45 figures. Card cover. Faint foxing. Near fine. 20.2 x 13.5. 7 papers by: Jack Oliver, W.G. Ernst, David Ray Griffin, Don L. Anderson .