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• 1.万物简史 第263期:大地在移动(17)
• No one can say what causes the oceans' chemistry to change so dramatically from time to time, but the opening and shutting of ocean ridges would be an...
• 2.万物简史 第262期:大地在移动(16)
• Earth is alone among the rocky planets in having tectonics, and why this should be is a bit of a mystery. It is not simply a matter of size or density...
• 3.万物简史 第261期:大地在移动(15)
• Pick up a pebble from a Massachusetts beach, and its nearest kin will now be in Africa. The Scottish Highlands and much of Scandinavia are substantial...
• 4.万物简史 第260期:大地在移动(14)
• It was equally dismissive of convection and seafloor spreading. And in Basin and Range, published in 1980, John McPhee noted that even then one Americ...
• 5.万物简史 第259期:大地在移动(13)
• One geologist later described it as probably the most significant paper in the earth sciences ever to be denied publication. 有一位地质学家后来把它描...
• 6.万物简史 第258期:大地在移动(12)
• but in the 1950s Patrick Blackett of the University of London and S. K. Runcorn of the University of Newcastle studied the ancient magnetic patterns f...
• 7.万物简史 第257期:大地在移动(11)
• That explained where all the sediment went. It was being returned to the bowels of the Earth. It also explained why ocean floors everywhere were so co...
• 8.万物简史 第256期:大地在移动(10)
• A very little of this had been known for some time. People laying ocean-floor cables in the nineteenth century had realized that there was some kind o...
• 9.万物简史 第255期:大地在移动(9)
• It was scored everywhere with canyons, trenches, and crevasses and dotted with volcanic seamounts that he called guyots after an earlier Princeton geo...
• 10.万物简史 第254期:大地在移动(8)
• There was one other major problem with Earth theories that no one had resolved, or even come close to resolving. That was the question of where all th...