Challenger at Sea by Kenneth Hsu

Challenger at Sea by Kenneth Hsu

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A survey of the work of the geological research ship "Glomar Challenger", which played a key role in the plate-tectonics revolution and its challenge to more conventional theories. The author charts the ship's explorations in the Pacific, Atlantic, Indian and Arctic Oceans.

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Challenger at Sea by Kenneth Hsu

The famous geological research ship Glomar Challenger was a radically new instrument that revolutionized earth science in the same sense that the cyclotron revolutionized nuclear physics, and its deep-sea drilling voyages, conducted from 1968 through 1983, were some of the great scientific adventures of our time. Beginning with the vessel's first cruises, which lent support to the idea of continental drift, the Challenger played a key part in the widely publicized plate-tectonics revolution and its challenge to more conventional theories. Originally published in 1992. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
"Informative, interesting, and provocative, and, as a personal history of the workings of a science, it is superb" * Science *
SKU Nicht verfügbar
ISBN 13 9780691087351
ISBN 10 0691087350
Titel Challenger at Sea
Autor Kenneth Jinghwa Hsü
Serie Princeton Legacy Library
Buchzustand Nicht verfügbar
Bindungsart Hardback
Verlag Princeton University Press
Erscheinungsjahr 1992-10-21
Seitenanzahl 454
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