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Stories from the Deep Earth = How Scientists Figured Out What Drives Tectonic Plates and Mountain Building /

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Title/Author:	Stories from the Deep Earth/ by Geoffrey F. Davies.
Reminder of title:	How Scientists Figured Out What Drives Tectonic Plates and Mountain Building /
Author:	Davies, Geoffrey F.
Description:	V, 202 p. 63 illus.online resource. :
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
Subject:	Geophysics. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-91359-5
ISBN:	9783030913595

Stories from the Deep Earth = How Scientists Figured Out What Drives Tectonic Plates and Mountain Building /
Davies, Geoffrey F.

Stories from the Deep EarthHow Scientists Figured Out What Drives Tectonic Plates and Mountain Building /[electronic resource] :by Geoffrey F. Davies. - 1st ed. 2022. - V, 202 p. 63 illus.online resource.

Chapter 1. Deep Earth and deep time, big ideas and big egos -- Chapter 2. The accidental geophysicist -- Chapter 3. A propitious time -- Chapter 4. Water, heat, time, mountains -- Chapter 5. Yielding rocks -- Chapter 6. Vagrant continents -- Chapter 7. Like nothing we’ve seen before -- Chapter 8. Novel ideas: plates and plumes -- Chapter 9. But what is the driving mechanism? -- Chapter 10. Chemistry and egos muscle in -- Chapter 11. Making it a science? -- Chapter 12. Some clarity: two convection modes, interacting -- Chapter 13. Earth’s lessons: humility, power and science -- Chapter 14. Some chemical clarifying -- Chapter 15. Too noble? -- Chapter 16. Perspective; Imperfect but better than shouting.

Plate tectonics can drift continents and push up mountains, but what drives the plates? This is an insider’s account of how we answered questions posed over two centuries ago, and completed geology’s quest for a driving mechanism. Forging through confusing evidence, apparent contradictions and raging debates we arrived at not one but two mechanisms: sinking plates and rising plumes.

ISBN: 9783030913595

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-030-91359-5doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

686174
Geophysics.

LC Class. No.: QC801-809

Dewey Class. No.: 550

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