Challenger at Sea : : A Ship That Revolutionized Earth Science / / Kenneth Jinghwa Hsü.
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 adventure...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014] ©1992 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Legacy Library ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (464 p.) :; 22 halftones. 80 line illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Plates
- Preface to the American Edition
- Preface to the Chinese Edition
- Preface to the German Edition
- Acknowledgments
- PART ONE. THE EVE OF A REVOLUTION, 1963-1968
- Chapter 1. Moho and Mohole
- Chapter 2. Ice Age and LOCO
- Chapter 3. The Challenger Goes to Sea: The Inauguration of Glomar Challenger
- Chapter 4. The Earth Science Revolution
- PART TWO. THE BREAKTHROUGH, 1968-1973
- Chapter 5. A Game of Numbers
- Chapter 6. Atlantic and Tethys
- Chapter 7. Arc and Trench in the Mediterranean
- Chapter 8. Swallowing Up of the Ocean Floor
- Chapter 9. Marginal Seas
- Chapter 10. Hope and Frustration in Nauru
- Chapter 11. HawaiianHot-Spot
- Chapter 12. India's Long March
- PART THREE. EXPLORING NEW TERRITORIES, 1973-1975
- Chapter 13. EXPLORING NEW TERRITORIES, 1973-1975 Antarctic Adventures
- Chapter 14. Mid-Cretaceous Anoxia
- Chapter 15. When the Mediterranean Dried Up
- Chapter 16. The Black Sea Was Not Always Black
- PART FOUR. SEEDING A NEW REVOLUTION WHILE MOPPING UP, 1975-1983
- Chapter 17. Getting Stuck in Ocean Crust
- Chapter 18 Eating Peanuts on Ocean Margins
- Chapter 19. What Makes the Ocean Run
- Chapter 20. The Great Dying
- Epilogue
- Appendix A. Deep-Sea Drilling Legs
- Appendix B. Bibliographical Notes
- Index