The Road to Jaramillo: Critical Years of the Revolution in Earth ScienceStanford University Press, 1982 - 459 páginas This is the story, told here for the first time, of how an international cast of scientists produced the discoveries that brought about the plate-tectonics revolution. In preparing this book the author interviewed virtually all of the important contributors to that critical decade of research, 1957-66. Working in the tradition of history of science, he explores personal relationships, institutional support, and the rivalries and frictions between and within research groups. |
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DEVELOPING THE POTASSIUMARGON METHOD | 13 |
DATING INCREASINGLY YOUNGER ROCKS | 50 |
CONFIRMING AND EXTENDING THE TRADITION | 72 |
THE BIRTH AND GROWTH OF PALEOMAGNETICS | 93 |
MAJOR PARTICIPANTS MENTORS AND IMPLEMENTORS | 140 |
THE SCALE EVOLVES | 223 |
Growing Complexity | 237 |
Order in Disorder | 245 |
THE DATA BANK | 312 |
EPILOGUE | 355 |
A A Note of Concern | 367 |
NOTES | 379 |
50 | 380 |
REFERENCES | 393 |
TABLE OF INTERVIEWEES | 433 |
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Allan Cox argon Balsley basalt Berkeley Brent Dalrymple Brunhes Bullard California continental drift correlation Cox and Doell Cox's Curtis and Evernden Dalrymple's Doell early earth's magnetic field East Pacific Rise Eltanin 19 Evernden and Curtis field reversals Folinsbee Fuca Ridge geologists geomagnetic geophysics Goldich graduate Grommé Hawaii Hawaiian Heirtzler hypothesis Iceland important interest Irving Jack Evernden Jaeger Jaramillo event John Verhoogen Juan de Fuca Kistler laboratory Lamont lava Lipson magnetic anomalies magnetometer mass spectrometer Menlo Park mid-ocean ridges million minerals netic noted ocean Olduvai Opdyke oral comm paleomagnetic paleomagnetists paper Pleistocene polarity reversals polarity-reversal scale potassium potassium-argon dating problem published radiometric radiometric dating Raff recalled remanent magnetism reversely magnetized Reynolds Richard Doell Rock Magnetics Rock Magnetics Project Runcorn Rutten samples sanidine Science seafloor spreading sediments self-reversal Sierra Nevada stratigraphic studies tion U.S. Geological Survey Wahrhaftig Wilson written comm young rocks
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