In the Footsteps of Warren B. Hamilton: New Ideas in Earth Science

x, 434 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 28 cm. This unusual book, published to honor the late iconoclast and geologist extraordinaire Warren Bell Hamilton, comprises a diverse, cross-disciplinary collection of bold new ideas in Earth and planetary science. Some chapters audaciously point out all-too-obvious deficits in prevailing theories. Other ideas are embryonic and in need of testing and still others are downright outrageous. Some are doubtless right and others likely wrong. See if you can tell which is which. See if your students can tell which is which. This unique book is a rich resource for researchers at all levels looking for interesting, unusual, and off-beat ideas to investigate or set as student projects. Contents: WARREN B. HAMILTON'S APPROACH TO SCIENCE : On the last paper of Warren B. Hamilton / Lawrence C. Hamilton From crisis to normal science, and back again: Coming full "Kuhn cycle" in the career of Warren B. Hamilton / Thomas Rossetter Rittmann's heritage: A philosophical approach for current research / Daniele Musumeci, Arnaldo Angelo De Benedetti, Stefano Branca, Luigi Ingaliso TECTONICS : Icelandia / Gillian R. Foulger, Laurent Gernigon, Laurent Geoffroy Revisiting hotspots and continental breakup Updating the classical three-arm model / Carol A. Stein, Seth Stein, Molly M. Gallahue, Reece P. Elling Linear magnetic anomalies and the limits of oceanic crust in oceans / Laurent Geoffroy, Laurent Gernigon, Gillian R. Foulger The African continental divide: Indian versus Atlantic Ocean spreading during Gondwana dispersal / Alexander L. Peace, Jordan J.J. Phethean Volcano distribution and tectonics: A planetoidic perspective / Edgardo Cañón-Tapia Cenozoic magmatism and plate tectonics in western North America: Have we got it wrong? / Allen F. Glazner Large-magnitude oceanic intraplate seismicity: Implications for lithosphere evolution / Junjiang Zhu, Sanzhong Li, Huilin Xing, Changsheng Wang, Guoming Yang, Zixiang Xiong, Shengsheng Zhang, Xianzhi Cao Teleseismic tomography: Equation one is wrong / B.R. Julian, G.R. Foulger Tectonic hydrogen and tectonic oxygen production through deforming piezoelectric minerals in the presence of water / Huifang Xu, Kuang-Sheng Hong, Meiye Wu, Seungyeol Lee Plate convergence, consumption, collision, coupling, capture, and formation of mantle waves Linkages to global orogenesis and epeirogeny / Thomas H. Anderson Detrital zircon record of the Mesoproterozoic Belt basin and implications for horizontal and vertical tectonic models / Stuart D. Parker, Marc S. Hendrix Earthquake weather and climate change: Should we stress about the forecast? / Miles P. Wilson, Gillian R. Foulger, Christopher Saville, Samuel P. Graham, Bruce R. Julian Dependence of discharge, channel area, and flow velocity on river stage and a refutation of Manning's equation / Robert E. Criss PLANETARY : Challenging the dipolar paradigm for Proterozoic Earth / James W. Sears Links of planetary energetics to moon size, orbit, and planet spin: A new mechanism for plate tectonics / Anne M. Hofmeister, Robert E. Criss, Everett M. Criss How spin down and radioactive decay drive rocky planet evolution / Robert E. Criss, Anne M. Hofmeister New mechanism for forming thick granitic continental crust at Phanerozoic convergent margins / C.C. Lundstrom, X. Lin, K. Brueckel, C. Campe, X. Nan, K. Ortega, P. Akrie, M. Yu, S. Marshak Gravity field aspects for identification of cosmic impact structures on Earth / Jaroslav Klokočník, Ale Bezděk, Jan Kostelecký Role of Earth-Moon rotational dynamics in the shaping of the surface of our planet / Marcus P. Borom Terrestrial ejecta suborbital transport and the rotating frame transform / Thomas H.S. Harris Postulating an unconventional location for the missing mid-Pleistocene transition impact: Repaving North America with a cavitated regolith blanket while dispatching Australasian tektites and giving Michigan a thumb / Michael E. Davias, Thomas H.S.…