The Behavior of the Earth: Continental and Seafloor Mobility

by Claude Allègre

Book Overview

Well over a century after Darwin gave biology its unifying theory of evolution, the earth sciences experienced a similar revolution and the theory of plate tectonics took hold. Plate tectonics posed the idea that the earth's crust is divided into a number of large, thin plates always in motion relative to one another. In The Behavior of the Earth, world-renowned earth scientist Claude Allegre sets forth the exciting events in this contemporary revolution...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674064577
• ISBN13: 9780674064577
• Release Date: June 1988
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 286 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.6"