Ring of Fire 1: What Volcanoes Tell Us About Plate Tectonics
The goal of this project is to map volcanic activity and relate it to the positions of the Earth's tectonic plates. Figure 1. Map of major tectonic plates of the earth (Tilling, date unknown). How are volcanoes related to tectonic plates? The ... [... more]
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Plate Tectonics: How It Works
 Author: A. Cox Author: B. R. Hart Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 551.136 EAN: 9780865423138 ISBN: 086542313X Number Of Pages: 416 Publication Date: 1991-01-15 [... more]
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The Ocean of Truth: A Personal History of Global ...
Author: H. W. Menard Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 551.13609 EAN: 9780691084145 ISBN: 0691084149 Number Of Pages: 370 Publication Date: 1986-09 [... more]
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Global Tectonics
Book Description: Warmly praised in its first edition, particularly for its careful balance between geology and geophysics, GLOBAL TECTONICS is an even better textbook in its second edition. Responding to reviews, comments from instructors and [... more]
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Continental Drift: Colliding Continents, Converging Cultures
Author: Constantin Roman Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 551.092 EAN: 9780750306867 Edition: 1 ISBN: 0750306866 Number Of Pages: 228 Publication Date: 2000-06-01 [... more]
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Grand Canyon: Solving Earth's Grandest Puzzle
Worth a read if you're somewhat technically curious: I think James Lawrence Powell had pretty big ambitions for this book when he set out to write it: to tell an adventure story or two about the early exploration of the Southwest, to give the history of [... more]
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Global Tectonics
Book Description: Warmly praised in its first edition, particularly for its careful balance between geology and geophysics, GLOBAL TECTONICS is an even better textbook in its second edition. Responding to reviews, comments from instructors and [... more]
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The Behavior of the Earth: Continental and Seafloor Mobility
Superb Introduction to Plate Tectonics: The grumpiness and even hidebound intransigence of 'traditional geologists' who see their entire geological worldview literally swept away by the breathtaking scope of Plate Tectonic theory is a fascinating aspect [... more]
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Tectonics
What do we really know about plate tectonics?: A great book! It is written at the 1st year graduate student level. The authors think you are smart, are willing to work to understand, but feel they need to cover it all from ground zero. A great [... more]
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California Geology (2nd Edition)
The ONLY up-to-date textbook on California geology: Deborah Hardin's textbook on California geology is superior to all previous texts inasmuch as she is the first to utilize the theory of plate tectonics to provide a unified framework for her overall [... more]
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Supercontinent: Ten Billion Years in the Life of Our Planet
The Grand Quadrille: "Did the Earth move for you?", asks the voice beside you. Well, yes. Because that's what it does. All the time. The continent you live on used to be someplace else, and far away from where it is now. Your home ground has [... more]
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Furnace of Creation, Cradle of Destruction: A Journey to ...
Book Description: Over the past few years, devastating tsunamis off the coast of the Indian Ocean have killed hundreds of thousands of people. Even more alarmingly, scientists predict that these tsunamis, as well as a series of earthquakes and volcanic [... more]
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