Shocks and Rocks
Seismology in the Plated Tectonics Revolution
Jack Oliver, Editor
Presents the story of seismology and the great plate tectonics revolution of the
1960's.
Ideas from the 19th century that formed the revolution up to ideas of today that
have built upon the revolution are traced. Jack Oliver wrote this book as a pa
rticipant of the revolution and not as an historian, his perspective shows the e
laborate role seismology had to the plate tectonics revolution. Shocks and Rock
s "describes just how a science works when things are going well, in the hope of
accelerating the pace toward great discoveries of the future."
History of Geophysics Series, Volume 6, 1996. Approx. 208 pages, hardbound,
ISBN 0-87590-280-4,AGU Code HG0062804.
List price -- $28.00 AGU Member price -- $19.60
Table of Contents
THE PRE-1960s
- Observing the Shaking
- Learning about the Earth and about Earthquakes
- Artificial Sources
THE 1960s
- Continental Drift and Sea Floor Spreading, The Forerunners of Plate Tec
tonics
- The Origin and Early Days of the Lamont Geological Observatory and Its Progr
am in Earthquake Seismology
- Science by Hypothesis Testing
- Science by Serendipity
- Science by Synthesis
AFTER THE 1960s
- Full-Fledged Plate Tectonics
- Strategy, Philosophy, and Things Like That
- Epilogue
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