Continents adrift : readings from Scientific American /

Continents adrift : readings from Scientific American /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	San Francisco : W.H. Freeman and Co., [1972], ©1970.
Description:	172 pages : illustrations, maps ; 29 cm
Language:	English
Series:	Edward Valauskas Collection of Dinosauriana.
Subject:	Continental drift. Plate tectonics. Continental drift Plate tectonics
Format:	Print Book
Local Note:	University of Chicago Library's copy is from the Edward Valauskas Collection of Dinosauriana.
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13339725

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Other uniform titles:	Scientific American.
Other authors / contributors:	Wilson, J. Tuzo (John Tuzo), 1908-1993, writer of introductions. Edward Valauskas Collection of Dinosauriana.
ISBN:	0716708582 9780716708582 0716708574 9780716708575 0715708574 9780715708576 0715708570
Provenance:	Copy 1. Gift of Edward Valauskas. Laid in: publisher's advertisement.
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-167) and index.
Summary:	"This book brings together fifteen articles from Scientific American that describe the latest scientific revolution - the revolution in ideas about the behavior of the earth's surface. Formerly, most scientists regarded the earth as rigid and the continent as fixed, but now the surface of the earth is seen as slowly deformable and the continents as "rafts" floating on a "sea" of denser rock. The continents have repeatedly collided and joined, repeatedly broken and separated in different patterns, and, very likely, they have grown larger in the process."--Preface.

Table of Contents:

I. Mobility in the Earth
II. Continental drift, sea-floor spreading, and plate tectonics
III. Some consequences and examples of continental drift.