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PLATE TECTONICS, COLLECTED REPRINT, 1972


Lynn R. Sykes

Mechanism of earthquakes and nature of faulting on the mid-oceanic ridge

[Full Article]  [Abstract]

Jack Oliver and Bryan Isacks

Deep earthquake zones, anomalous structures in the upper mantle, and the lithosphere

[Full Article]  [Abstract]

Dan P. McKenzie

Some remarks on heat flow and gravity anomalies

[Full Article]  [Abstract]

J. R. Heirtzler, G. O. Dickson, E. M. Herron, W. C. Pitman III, and X. Le Pichon

Marine magnetic anomalies, geomagnetic field reversals, and motions of the ocean floor and continents

[Full Article]  [Abstract]

W. Jason Morgan

Rises, trenches, great faults, and crustal blocks

[Full Article]  [Abstract]

Xavier Le Pichon

Sea-floor spreading and continental drift

[Full Article]  [Abstract]

Bryan Isacks, Jack Oliver, and Lynn R. Sykes

Seismology and the new global tectonics

[Full Article]  [Abstract]

Robert S. Dietz

Reply: 'Arthur Holmes: Originator of spreading ocean floor hypothesis'

[Full Article]  [Abstract]

H. H. Hess

Reply: 'Arthur Holmes: Originator of spreading ocean floor hypothesis'

[Full Article]  [Abstract]

A. A. Meyerhoff

Arthur Holmes: Originator of spreading ocean floor hypothesis

[Full Article]  [Abstract]

E. Irving and W. A. Robertson

Test for polar wandering and some possible implications

[Full Article]  [Abstract]

Daniel E. Karig

Ridges and basins of the Tonga-Kermadec Island Arc System

[Full Article]  [Abstract]

Jean Francheteau and J. G. Sclater

Comments on paper by E. Irving and W. A. Robertson, 'Test of for polar wandering and some possible implications'

[Full Article]  [Abstract]

R. Kay, N. J. Hubbard, and P. W. Gast

Chemical characteristics and origin of oceanic ridge volcanic rocks

[Full Article]  [Abstract]

R. I. Walcott

Flexural rigidity, thickness, and viscosity of the lithosphere

[Full Article]  [Abstract]

Wolfgang R. Jacoby

Instability in the upper mantle and global plate movements

[Full Article]  [Abstract]

Manik Talwani, Charles C. Windisch, and Marcus G. Langseth Jr.

Reykjanes Ridge crest: A detailed geophysical study

[Full Article]  [Abstract]

R. G. Coleman

Plate tectonic emplacement of upper mantle preidotites along continental edges

[Full Article]  [Abstract]

Walter M. Elsasser

Sea-floor spreading as thermal convection

[Full Article]  [Abstract]

M. Nafi Toksöz, John W. Minear, and Bruce R. Julian

Temperature field and geophysical effects of a downgoing slab

[Full Article]  [Abstract]

K. Jonghwa Hsü

Franciscan Mélanges as a model for eugeosynclinal sedimentation and underthrusting tectonics

[Full Article]  [Abstract]

E. R. Oxburgh and D. L. Turcotte

Origin of paired metamorphic belts and crustal dilation in island arc regions

[Full Article]  [Abstract]

John F. Dewey and John M. Bird

Origin and emplacement of the Ophiolite Suite: Appalachian ophiolites in Newfoundland

[Full Article]  [Abstract]

Xavier Le Pichon and Paul J. Fox

Marginal offsets, fracture zones, and the early opening of the North Atlantic

[Full Article]  [Abstract]

Xavier Le. Pichon and Dennis E. Hayes

Marginal offsets, fracture zones, and the early opening of the South Atlantic

[Full Article]  [Abstract]

John S. Milsom

Discussion of paper by R. G. Coleman 'Plate tectonic emplacement of upper mantle preidotites along continental edges'

[Full Article]  [Abstract]

John G. Sclater, Roger N. Anderson, and M. Lee Bell

Elevation of ridges and evolution of the central eastern Pacific

[Full Article]  [Abstract]

George Plafker

Alaskan Earthquake of 1964 and Chilean Earthquake of 1960: Implications for arc tectonics

[Full Article]  [Abstract]

G. Schubert and D. L. Turcotte

One-dimensional model of shallow mantle convection

[Full Article]  [Abstract]