Challenger At sea (ebook)

Argumento de Challenger At sea (ebook)

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.

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"Informative, interesting, and provocative, and, as a personal history of the workings of a science, it is superb."--Science 0List of Figures List of Plates Preface to the American Edition Preface to the Chinese Edition Preface to the German Edition Acknowledgments Pt. 1 The Eve of a Revolution, 1963-1968 Ch. 1 Moho and Mohole 3 Ch. 2 Ice Age and LOCO 21 Ch. 3 The Challenger Goes to Sea: The Inauguration of Glomar Challenger 35 Ch. 4 The Earth Science Revolution 46 Pt. 2 The Breakthrough, 1968-1973 Ch. 5 A Game of Numbers 75 Ch. 6 Atlantic and Tethys 95 Ch. 7 Arc and Trench in the Mediterranean 108 Ch. 8 Swallowing Up of the Ocean Floor 130 Ch. 9 Marginal Seas 146 Ch. 10 Hope and Frustration in Nauru 162 Ch. 11 Hawaiian Hot-Spot 184 Ch. 12 India's Long March 198 Pt. 3 Exploring New Territories, 1973-1975 Ch. 13 Antarctic Adventures 219 Ch. 14 Mid-Cretaceous Anoxia 238 Ch. 15 When the Mediterranean Dried Up 255 Ch. 16 The Black Sea Was Not Always Black 274 Pt. 4 Seeding a New Revolution While Mopping Up, 1975-1983 Ch. 17 Getting Stuck in Ocean Crust 299 Ch. 18 Eating Peanuts on Ocean Margins 317 Ch. 19 What Makes the Ocean Run 338 Ch. 20 The Great Dying 355 Epilogue 384 Appendix A: Deep-Sea Drilling Legs 393 Appendix B: Bibliographical Notes 403 Index 409