Davies G.F. Stories from the Deep Earth: How Scientists Figured Out What Drives Tectonic Plates and Mountain Building

Springer, 2022. — 199 p. — ISBN 978-3-030-91358-8.Истории из недр Земли: как ученые выяснили, что движет тектоническими плитами и горообразованиемPlate tectonics can drift continents and push up mountains, but what drives the plates? This is an insider’s account of how we answered questions posed over two centuries ago, and completed geology’s quest for a driving mechanism. Forging through confusing evidence, apparent contradictions and raging debates we arrived at not one but two mechanisms: sinking plates and rising plumes.Deep Earth and Deep Time, Big Ideas and Big Egos
The Accidental Geophysicist
A Propitious Time
Water, Heat, Time, Mountains
Yielding Rocks.
Vagrant Continents
Like Nothing We’ve Seen Before
Novel Ideas: Plates and Plumes
But What is the Driving Mechanism?
Chemistry and Egos Muscle in
Making It a Science?
Some Clarity: Two Convection Modes, Interacting
Earth’s Lessons: Humility, Power and Science
Some Chemical Clarifying
Too Noble?
Perspective; Imperfect but Better Than Shouting