Includes bibliographical references (pages 246-253) and index.
Contents:
Uniformitarianism: the first breakthrough -- Evolution and the Origin of Species -- Continental drift -- Mantle convection: a mechanism for continental drift? -- Deformation ellipsoid to ductile shear zone -- Plate tectonics -- Ophiolites: clues to the ocean crust and mantle -- Fault system kinematics -- Back-arc basins and trench roll-back -- Hot spots and mantle plumes -- Sequence stratigraphy -- Gravity spreading.
Summary:
"...Plate Tectonics, which, although questioned at the time it was introduced, is now universally accepted as a general principle. A large number of the subsequent advances in geological understanding have been based upon this breakthrough. Each of the 12 chapters in this book represents a new idea or discovery, which is discussed in its historical context..."--inside flap.
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