70 Centimetres and Rising
John Whitfield: Plate tectonics, 3 February 2005
The Earth: An Intimate History
by Richard Fortey.
Harper Perennial, 501 pp., £9.99, March 2005,0 00 655137 8 Show More
by Richard Fortey.
Harper Perennial, 501 pp., £9.99, March 2005,
“... worldview was crumbling under the pressure of accumulative data. In a paper published in 1962, Harry Hess, a geologist at Princeton and former naval captain, proposed that the mid-Atlantic ridge was in the middle of the Atlantic because the continents were moving away from it at an equal rate: the ocean was getting wider and growing new crust at its ... ”