Challenger at sea : a ship that revolutionized earth science / Kenneth J. Hsü.

Revised translation of: Ein Schiff revolutioniert die Wissenschaft.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Plates -- Preface to the American Edition -- Preface to the Chinese Edition -- Preface to the German Edition -- Acknowledgments -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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.

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. Originally published in 1992. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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