Stories from the Deep Earth: How Scientists Figured Out What Drives Tectonic Plates and Mountain Building
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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
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:B0BPGJ4V9H
ISBN13:9783030913618
Release Date:January 2023
Publisher:Springer
Length:202 Pages
Weight:0.66 lbs.
Dimensions:0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"
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