What Drives The Motion Of The Tectonic Plates On Earth
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Stories from the Deep Earth
Author: Geoffrey F. Davies
language: en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date: 2022-01-03
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.
Continents and Supercontinents
Author: John J. W. Rogers
language: en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date: 2004-09-16
Surveys the origin of continents, and the accretion and breakup of supercontinents through earth history. This book also shows how these processes affected the composition of seawater, climate, and the evolution of life.
The Origin of Continents and Oceans
Author: Alfred Wegener
language: en
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Release Date: 2012-07-25
A source of profound influence and controversy, this landmark 1915 work explains various phenomena of historical geology, geomorphy, paleontology, paleoclimatology, and similar areas in terms of continental drift. 64 illustrations. 1966 edition.