Stories from the Deep Earth: How Scientists Figured Out What Drives Tectonic Plates and Mountain Building by Davies 9783030913595 3030913597

Stories from the Deep Earth: How Scientists Figured Out What Drives Tectonic Plates and Mountain Building Davies – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9783030913595, 9783030913588, 3030913589, 3030913597

Product details:

• ISBN 10: 3030913597
• ISBN 13: 9783030913595
• Author:  Geoffrey F. Davies

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.

Table contents:

1. Deep Earth and Deep Time, Big Ideas and Big Egos
2. The Accidental Geophysicist
3. A Propitious Time
4. Water, Heat, Time, Mountains
5. Yielding Rocks
6. Vagrant Continents
7. Like Nothing We’ve Seen Before
8. Novel Ideas: Plates and Plumes
9. But What is the Driving Mechanism?
10. Chemistry and Egos Muscle in
11. Making It a Science?
12. Some Clarity: Two Convection Modes, Interacting
13. Earth’s Lessons: Humility, Power and Science
14. Some Chemical Clarifying
15. Too Noble?
16. Perspective; Imperfect but Better Than Shouting

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