Tuzo the unlikely revolutionary of plate tectonics /

"Your home is not where it was last night, and it will be in a different place tomorrow. This is the result of plate tectonics, a process most of us accept without hesitation today, but whose discovery was a true revolution that forever changed how we think of planet Earth. In 1961, a Canadian...

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Main Author: Eyles, Nick, 1952- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : Aevo UTP, an imprint of University of Toronto Press, [2022]
Physical Description:
xi, 283 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (chiefly color) ; 22 cm.
Issued also in electronic format.
Subjects:
Wilson, J. Tuzo -- (John Tuzo), -- 1908-1993.
Geologists -- Canada -- Biography.
Plate tectonics -- History.
Contents:
  • ch. 1 In the Beginning
  • ch. 2 Continents Adrift?
  • ch. 3 Sources of Friction
  • ch. 4 Permanentist Foundations
  • ch. 5 Tuzo's War
  • ch. 6 A Geologist in a Strange Land
  • ch. 7 Seismic Shift
  • ch. 8 The New World of Plate Tectonics
  • ch. 9 An Unlikely Revolutionary
  • Appendices
  • Appendix I Medals and Awards
  • Appendix II Select Primary Sources
  • Appendix III The Geological Timescale.

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