Plate tectonics and great earthquakes : 50 years of earth-shaking events
The theory of plate tectonics transformed earth science. The hypothesis that the earth's outermost layers consist of mostly rigid plates that move over an inner surface helped describe the growth of new seafloor, confirm continental drift, and explain why earthquakes and volcanoes occur in some...
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Columbia University Press
2019
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