The Challenger at Sea: A Ship That Revolutionized Earth Science - Rilegato

Hsu, Kenneth J.

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ISBN 10: 0691087350 ISBN 13: 9780691087351

Casa editrice: Princeton Univ Pr, 1992

Riassunto

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. Here the leading oceanographer and earth scientist Kenneth Hsu offers an intensely personal account of the experiences of the ship's diverse crews - the sailors, drillers, marine technicians, and scientists who braved not only the ocean's resistance to surrendering its secrets but also the difficulties of balky machinery, physical illness, close quarters, and all-too-human temperaments.
But the intellectual rewards of the journeys also abounded, and Hsu is the ideal writer to convey the excitement with which he and other crew scientists pursued them. The quintessential insider, he offers biographical sketches, humorous anecdotes, background information from the history of geology, and excerpts from the ship's daily operational report - all skillfully combined with a narrative history of the ship's explorations in the Pacific, Atlantic, and Indian Oceans and the polar seas. From a description of the much-debated drilling of a "Mohole" that would reach a mysterious realm ten kilometers below the ocean to a summary of the seafloor evidence for a meteor's having "murdered" the dinosaurs, the work provides an overview of the current state of marine geology and a source book for the history of that science.

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"Informative, interesting, and provocative, and, as a personal history of the workings of a science, it is superb."--Science

Contenuti:

	List 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

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• Editore: Princeton Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0691087350
• ISBN 13: 9780691087351
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 454