Stories from the Deep Earth
How Scientists Figured Out What Drives Tectonic Plates and Mountain Building
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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.
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.
Includes personal experience of doing science as well as history of the science, past and recent Helps us to understand forces driving tectonic plates and mantle plumes Draws a remarkable picture of the Earth turning slowly inside out
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Geoffrey F. Davies
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Mantle Convection History of Geology Mountain Building Mantle Plumes Subduction Zones