Hello Malcolm:
This is an awesome book. We were disbanding a library here and I was fortunate enough to grab Linc Washburn's copy.
BTW, I inadvertently sent my reply to Rob Butler's message to the whole list-serve but I'm glad I did. Excellent responses.
Regards,
Darrel
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On Thu, 8 Dec 2016, Malcolm McClure wrote:
> Nurtured by Holmes' first edition and WQ Kennedy’s paper on the Great Glen Fault, in 1963 I purchased Keith Runcorn’s 1962 textbook ‘Continental Drift’. This contains chapters
> outlining most of the key points of evidence that support plate tectonics, to which eminent followers like Vine and Matthews subsequently filled in the details.It is worth
> including editor Runcorn's Table of Contents here because of the historical significance of his volume, particulatly Benioff’s contribution:
>
> Chapter 1 by S. K. RUNCORN
> Palaeomagnetic Evidence for Continental Drift and its Geophysical Cause
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>
>
> Chapter 2 by N.D.OPDYKE
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> Palaeoclimatology and Continental Drift
>
> I. Introduction.................................... . . . . . . . . 41
>
> II. Sedimentary Climatic Indicators. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
>
> III. Uniformitarianism and the Study of Palaeoclimates.. . . . . . . . . 44
>
> IV. Distribution of Cainozoic Climatic Indicators.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
>
> V. Discussion of Cainozoic Climate. .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
>
> VI. Distribution of Climatic Indicators during the Mesozoic. . . . . . . 52
>
> VII. Distribution of Palaeozoic Climatic Indicators. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
>
> VIII. Palaeomagnetism and Palaeoclimatology. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
>
> IX. Conclusions.............................................. 63
>
> Chapter 3 by JOHN H. HODGSON
>
> Movements in the Earth's Crust as indicated by Earthquakes
>
> I. Introduction............................................ 67
>
> II. Studies of Earthquake Mechanism. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
>
> III. Interpretation on the Collapse Model. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
>
> IV. Interpretation on the Fault Model. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
>
> V. Summary and Conclusions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
>
>
> Chapter 4 by HUGO BENIOFF
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> Movements on Major Transcurrent Faults
>
> I. General Considerations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
>
> II. Circum-Pacific Shallow Faults. .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
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> III. Other Large Transcurrent Faults.. ... ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
>
> IV. Deep Faults of the Circum-Pacific Margins. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
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>
>
> Chapter 5 by VICTOR VACQUIER
>
> Magnetic Evidence for Horizontal Displacements in the Floor of the Pacific Ocean
>
> Chapter 6 by F. A. VENING MEINESZ
>
> Thermal Convection in the Earth's Mantle
>
> I. Introductory and Summary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 145
> II. The Constitntion of the Mantle. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 146
> III. Arguments in Favour of Convection Currents in the Mantle. .. 153
> IV. Convection Currents in a Plane Crystalline Layer. . . . . . . . . . .. 156
> V. Spherical Harmonics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 159
> VI. Convection Currents in the Crystalline Mantle. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162
> VII. Spherical Harmonic Development up to the 31st Order of the
>
> Earth's Topography. .......................................................... 164
>
> VIII. Interpretation of the Spherical Harmonic Development of the Topography;
> Convection Systems in the Mantle; Origin of Continents; Relative Displacements of Continents.... . . . . . . 169
>
> Chapter 7 by T. CHAMALAUN and P. H. ROBERTS
>
> The Theory of Convection in Spherical Shells and its Application to the Problem of Thermal Convection
>
> in the Earth's Mantle
>
> I. The Geophysical Problem... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177
> II. The Mathematical Stability Problem. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181
>
> III. Solution of the Stability Problem. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
>
> Chapter 8 by P. CHADWICK
>
> Mountain-Building Hypotheses
>
> I. Introduction............................................ 195
> II. Facts to be Accounted for by Theories of Crustal Evolution. . . 198
> III. Diastrophic Forces. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212
> IV. Mountain-Building Hypotheses. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 224
>
> Chapter 9 by BRUCE C. HEEZEN
>
> The Deep-Sea Floor
>
> I. Introduction............................................ 235
>
> II. The Ocean Floor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 236
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> III. Seismological Evidence for a Difference between the Continental and Oceanic Mantle. . . 263
>
> IV. Petrography of the Oceans. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 268
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> V. Age of Ocean Basins. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269
>
> VI. Discussion of the Hypotheses of Continental Drift. . . . . . . . . . ..
>
> Chapter 10 by ROBERT S. DIETZ
>
> Ocean-Basin Evolution by Sea-Floor Spreading 289
>
> I. Introduction.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 289
>
> II. Spreading Sea-Floor Concept ............................................................ 292
>
> III. Implications of the Concept. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 294
>
> Chapter 11 by T. F. GASKELL
>
> Comparisons of Pacific and Atlantic Ocean Floors
>
> in Relation to Ideas of Continental Displacement 299
>
> Chapter 12 by J. GEORGI
>
> Memories of Alfred Wegener 309
>
>
> Please accept my apologies for the weak formating above. Perhaps the William Smith meeting title should be 'Plate Tectonics at 55’?
>
> Malcolm.
>
>
> On 8 Dec 2016, at 22:28, Morgan, Jason <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Hi All, I see this is generating considerable discussion (and some misstatements that I know of).
>
> Plate Tectonics — in the sense of a theory describing plate motions as the motion of rigid Plates along the surface of a sphere — was first presented by Jason Morgan at the
> Spring 1967 AGU meeting. At that meeting, because his abstract had been on a different topic, he distributed about 10 preprints summarizing the gist of his idea, notes that
> were found by Xavier Le Pichon decades later during an office-cleaning, and published in Tectonophysics (Le Pichon, Tectonophysics, 187 (1991) l-22).
>
> However, the paper Morgan submitted to JGR in the summer of 1967 (to be a pedant, it was submitted before the papers on the subject by McKenzie&Parker and Le Pichon (and
> Morgan’s work is even referred to by Le Pichon in his original paper)), but unfortunately was delayed for quite a while by a review by Bill Menard (Menard has apologetically
> written about this in a great book of his, ‘Ocean of Truth'), and was published after the paper by McKenzie and Parker. McKenzie did not talk about ‘Plate Tectonics’ at the
> 1967 AGU, or earlier, and in fact wrote in an Oreskes book chapter that he independently came up with the idea a bit after Morgan did. However, he did publish first (Dec 30,
> 1967), benefiting from a gracious 6 week from submittal to publication with no revision time by Nature. (and that sure sounds strange in this day and age!!!) The McKenzie
> and Parker paper was a very short, provocative paper, while Morgan’s was attempting to be a more complete exposition, even including a global plate motion model.
>
>
> However, the idea of seafloor spreading, and Tuzo Wilson’s key conceptual idea of transform faults, were rapidly percolating towards acceptance by 1966. Morgan, McKenzie,
> and Le Pichon have rightly shared alot of the credit for ‘the theory’ — in reality any scientific theory is far more than just the idea, it is also the work that convinces
> others to take it seriously, and all contributed, essentially at the same time, in this key task. (with Isacks, Oliver, and Sykes (1968) seismology-centric paper being the
> work that persuaded many seismologists), and Tuzo Wilson’s earlier transform fault paper being the paper that, in my opinion, made sea-floor spreading comprehensible in a
> modern plate sense.
>
> Cheers, Jason
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> On Dec 8, 2016, at 7:38 PM, Grenville Draper <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Was going to suggest the same myself. Note that M & P was published in December 1967. McKenzie gave the paper at the December 1966 AGU meeting as did W. Jason
> Morgan, but were unaware of each others talks (see Naomi Oreskes book). Morgans paper wasn’t published until 1968.
>
> I think that I am also correct in stating that 1967 was the publication year of John Ramsay’s “Folding and fracturing of rocks”, (not to mention Toots and the
> Maytals release of “Do the Reggae”, which sttrted the whole reggae beat).
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> Gren
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> On Dec 8, 2016, at 12:33 PM, jwaldron <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> How about: McKenzie & Parker (1967) “The North Pacific: an example of tectonics on a sphere” Nature 216 1276-1280 ?
> John Waldron
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> On 2016/Dec/07, at 10:24 PM, Darrel S Cowan <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Hello Rob:
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> In October 2017, the annual meeting of the GSA will be in Seattle; I'm vice chair of the local committee, always with my antennae out for
> good sessions. We had thought of a "50th anniversary" session but struggled to come up with the key 1967 event or paper that we could
> celebrate. I always think of Isacks, Oliver, and Sykes, but their "new global tectonics" was 1968. I'm curious how you set the mark in
> 1967.
>
> In any event, although I won't be at Burlington House for the William Smith meeting, how would you feel if I contacted your speakers and
> advised them of our Seattle meeting? If some or all would do a reprise, they would have an audience garnered from 7000 participants, many
> of whom would be entranced. The deadline for proposing topical or special Pardee [money for invited speakers] sessions is 1 February
> 2017.
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> Rest assured that I won't progress on the issue until I know your sense.
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> Best regards,
> Darrel
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> On Mon, 28 Nov 2016, Butler, Robert wrote:
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> Dear fellow Geotectonics people
>
> The 2017 William Smith meeting of the Geological Society of London is:
> Plate Tectonics at 50.
> 3-5 October 2017.
> at Burlington House, London.
>
> http://www.geolsoc.org.uk/wsmith17
>
> On the 50th anniversary of the advent of the paradigm of plate tectonics, this three day meeting is convened to examine the
> state of the art and
> scope out new directions.
> Invited contributors include:
> Nick Christie-Blick
> John Dewey
> Tony Doré
> Cindy Ebinger
> Hank Frankel
> James Jackson
> Catherine Johnson
> Peter van Keken
> Mike Kendall
> Xavier Le Pichon
> Peter Molnar
> Jason Morgan
> Donna Shillington
> Tony Watts
>
> The meeting will conclude with the 2017 William Smith lecture by Dan McKenzie.
>
> There is an open call for papers for contributions that complement the array of invited speakers - reporting recent research
> on any aspect of
> tectonics and the associated disciplines that together feed into understanding the plate system and processes.
> Contributions are invited for talks and posters.
> The deadline for abstract submission is 31 May 2017 but we encourage submission and registration as early as possible to
> avoid disappointment
> (registration numbers are strictly limited). If you intend to submit an abstract you will need to register first.
> See the meeting website for information on registration and abstract submission.
> Best wishes
> Rob Butler
> (on behalf of the conference organising team: Rob Butler, Mike Daly, Fabienne Michaud, GarethRoberts, Jonathan Turner, Tony
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