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Author(s): Kenneth Jinghwa Hsü
ISBN(s): 9781400863020, 1400863023
Edition: Course Book
File Details: PDF, 38.92 MB
Year: 2014
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 1400863023

ISBN 13: 9781400863020 

Author: Kenneth Jinghwa Hsü

The famous geological research ship Glomar Challenger was a radically new instrument that revolutionized earth science in the same sense that the cyclotron revolutionized nuclear physics, and its deep-sea drilling voyages, conducted from 1968 through 1983, were some of the great scientific adventures of our time. Beginning with the vessel’s first cruises, which lent support to the idea of continental drift, the Challenger played a key part in the widely publicized plate-tectonics revolution and its challenge to more conventional theories.

Originally published in 1992.

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Table of contents:

PART ONE. THE EVE OF A REVOLUTION, 1963-1968

  • Chapter 1. Moho and Mohole

  • Chapter 2. Ice Age and LOCO

  • Chapter 3. The Challenger Goes to Sea: The Inauguration of Glomar Challenger

  • Chapter 4. The Earth Science Revolution

PART TWO. THE BREAKTHROUGH, 1968-1973

  • Chapter 5. A Game of Numbers

  • Chapter 6. Atlantic and Tethys

  • Chapter 7. Arc and Trench in the Mediterranean

  • Chapter 8. Swallowing Up of the Ocean Floor

  • Chapter 9. Marginal Seas

  • Chapter 10. Hope and Frustration in Nauru

  • Chapter 11. Hawaiian Hot-Spot

  • Chapter 12. India’s Long March

PART THREE. EXPLORING NEW TERRITORIES, 1973-1975

  • Chapter 13. Antarctic Adventures

  • Chapter 14. Mid-Cretaceous Anoxia

  • Chapter 15. When the Mediterranean Dried Up

  • Chapter 16. The Black Sea Was Not Always Black

PART FOUR. SEEDING A NEW REVOLUTION WHILE MOPPING UP, 1975-1983

  • Chapter 17. Getting Stuck in Ocean Crust

  • Chapter 18. Eating Peanuts on Ocean Margins

  • Chapter 19. What Makes the Ocean Run

  • Chapter 20. The Great Dying

  • Epilogue

  • Appendix A. Deep-Sea Drilling Legs

  • Appendix B. Bibliographical Notes

  • Index

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