Upheaval from the Abyss

This is a story of very strong upward movements: genesis, struggle, progress, upheaval, revolution, and triumph. David Lawrence describes how the mapping of the ocean floor from the 1850s onward revealed that the earth's features had not been permanent throughout history. In the mid-1960s scientists confirmed the phenomenon of "seafloor spreading," the upheaval of the earth's crust from the rifts in the midocean ridges and the cause of continental movement. Upheaval from the Abyss supports the classic premise that the modern theory of plate tectonics equaled a "revolution" in the earth sciences; overthrowing long-held theories of a contracting, a fixed, or an expanding earth, it formed "a new, unifying paradigm in earth science" (p. 238)

Continental drift · Crust · Earth (classical element) · Earth science · Epistemology · Plate tectonics · Premise · Rift · Seafloor Spreading · Tectonics · Geology · Geophysics · Global Energy and Sustainability Research · Paleontology · Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils · Philosophy