Tuzo

Prologue: The Day the Earth Moved

1. In the Beginning
2. Continents Adrift?
3. Sources of Friction
4. Permanentist Foundations
5. Tuzo's War
6. A Geologist in a Strange Land
7. Seismic Shift
8. The New World of Plate Tectonics
9. An Unlikely Revolutionary

Appendix I: Medals and Awards
Appendix II: Select Primary Sources
Appendix III: The Geological Timescale
Index

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• Geologia e a litosfera
• Processos geológicos superficiais (geomorfologia)
• Petrologia
• Geoquímica
• Geologia económica
• História natural
• Geologia histórica

plate tectonics; continental drift; planet Earth; Tuzo Wilson; Jock Wilson; Canadian history; famous geologists; geology; geography; earthquakes; earth sciences; paradigm shift; Alfred Wegener; scientific theory