Global Tectonics
Edition: 3 edition
Publisher: Blackwell Publishers
Published: January 2008
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9781405107778
Subjects: Geophysics; Science; Science/Mathematics; Earth Sciences - Geology; Earth Sciences - General; Plate tectonics; Textbooks
First sentence: Although the theory of the new global tectonics, or plate tectonics, has largely been developed since 1967, the history of ideas concerning a mobilist view of the Earth extends back considerably longer (Rupke, 1970; Tarling &amp; Tarling, 1971; Hallam, 1973a; Vine, 1977; Frankel, 1998).