Editor's Note
It wasn’t until the mid 1960s that geoscientists began to first glimpse
the earth as an integrated system. Until that time individual
earth processes such as volcanism, earthquakes and mountain building
were seen as very separate occurrences with curious proximity in time
and space. Through a number of unintended discoveries the picture
of the earth as a system started to develop and nothing short of a
revolution in the earth sciences followed. The authors of this
selection do a great job of not only outlining our basic understanding
of the plate tectonic theory, they offer a window into the development
of a scientific revolution.
The Story of Plate Tectonics
W. Jacquelyne Kious and Robert I. Tilling
United States Geological Survey
online publication
http://pubs.usgs.gov/publications/text/dynamic.html
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