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This book provides an overview of the history of plate tectonics, including in-context definitions of the key terms. It explains how the forerunners of the theory and how scientists working at the key academic institutions competed and collaborated until the theory coalesced.

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SINCE THE 16TH CENTURY, CARTOGRAPHERS HAVE NOTICED THE jigsaw-puzzle fit of the continental edges.

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  • Title Plate Tectonics: An Insider's History Of The Modern Theory Of The Earth
  • Author Naomi Oreskes
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 450
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher CRC Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts
  • Publication date 2003-02-07
  • Features Bibliography, Index, Maps
  • ISBN 9780813341323 / 0813341329
  • Weight 1.42 lbs (0.64 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.1 x 5.97 x 1.05 in (23.11 x 15.16 x 2.67 cm)
  • Category Science
  • Library of Congress subjects History, Plate tectonics
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2007310297
  • Dewey Decimal Code 551.136

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Naomi Oreskes, Ph.D. Stanford, is Associate Professor of History at the University of California, San Diego.
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