Plate Tectonics and Great Earthquakes : : 50 Years of Earth-Shaking Events / / Lynn R. Sykes.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
• VerfasserIn: Sykes, Lynn R.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource :; 72 b&w illustrations and 31 color plates in an insert

The theory of plate tectonics transformed earth science. The hypothesis that the earth's outermost layers consist of mostly rigid plates that move over an inner surface helped describe the growth of new seafloor, confirm continental drift, and explain why earthquakes and volcanoes occur in some...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• CONTENTS
• PREFACE
• 1. Transform Faults: My Road to Seafloor Spreading, Continental Drift, and Plate Tectonics
• 2. Childhood, High School, MIT, and Columbia University
• 3. Earthquakes Along Fracture Zones and Mid- Oceanic Ridges, 1963- 1965
• 4. Earthquakes at Subduction Zones, 1965- 1967
• 5. Subduction, Plate Tectonics, and the New Global Tectonics, 1967- 1969
• 6. Earthquakes in the Caribbean and Alaska
• 7. Long- Term Earthquake Prediction, Seismic Gaps: Alaska, Mexico, and South America
• 8. The San Francisco Earthquake of 1906 and Long- Term Prediction for California
• 9. My Work with the U.S. National Earthquake Prediction Evaluation Council
• 10. Japanese Earthquakes and the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster
• 11. Earthquakes in the Eastern and Central United States
• 12. Earthquake Risks to Nuclear- Power Reactors
• 13. Nuclear- Power Reactors in the United States: Lessons Learned from the Fukushima Disaster
• 14. Travels to Earthquake Countries and a Trip to the Earth's Mantle in Newfoundland
• 15. Advances in Long- Term Earthquake Prediction: Future Prospects
• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
• GLOSSARY
• REFERENCES
• INDEX
• ABOUT THE AUTHOR