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Stories from the Deep Earth: How Scientists Figured Out What Drives Tectonic Plates and Mountain Building

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Plate tectonics can drift continents and push up mountains, but what drives the plates? This is an insider’s account of how we answered questions posed over two centuries ago, and completed geology’s quest for a driving mechanism. Forging through confusing evidence, apparent contradictions and raging debates we arrived at not one but two mechanisms: sinking plates and rising plumes.

Author(s): Geoffrey F. Davies
Publisher: Springer
Year: 2022

Language: English
Pages: 207
City: Cham

Contents
1 Deep Earth and Deep Time, Big Ideas and Big Egos
2 The Accidental Geophysicist
3 A Propitious Time
4 Water, Heat, Time, Mountains
5 Yielding Rocks
6 Vagrant Continents
7 Like Nothing We’ve Seen Before
8 Novel Ideas: Plates and Plumes
9 But What is the Driving Mechanism?
10 Chemistry and Egos Muscle in
11 Making It a Science?
12 Some Clarity: Two Convection Modes, Interacting
13 Earth’s Lessons: Humility, Power and Science
14 Some Chemical Clarifying
15 Too Noble?
16 Perspective; Imperfect but Better Than Shouting
Bibliography of Sources of Figures