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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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Language: | English |
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Toronto ; Buffalo ; London :
Aevo UTP, an imprint of University of Toronto Press,
[2022]
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xi, 283 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (chiefly color) ; 22 cm.
Issued also in electronic format. |
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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.