Sykes Plate Tectonics and Great Earthquakes

50 Years of Earth-Shaking Events
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-0-231-54687-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 100 Seiten

Lynn R. Sykes played a key role in the birth of plate tectonics, conducting revelatory research on earthquakes. In this book, he gives an invaluable insider’s perspective on the theory’s development and its implications.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sykes, Lynn R.

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geologie Vulkanologie, Seismologie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Naturwissenschaften, Technik, Medizin
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Formalen Wissenschaften & Technik
• Geowissenschaften Geologie Geologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
1. Transform Faults: My Road to Seafloor Spreading, Continental Drift, and Plate Tectonics
2. Childhood, High School, MIT, and Columbia University
3. Earthquakes Along Fracture Zones and Mid-Oceanic Ridges, 1963–1965
4. Earthquakes at Subduction Zones, 1965–1967
5. Subduction, Plate Tectonics, and the New Global Tectonics, 1967–1969
6. Earthquakes in the Caribbean and Alaska
7. Long-Term Earthquake Prediction, Seismic Gaps: Alaska, Mexico, and South America
8. The San Francisco Earthquake of 1906 and Long-Term Prediction for California
9. My Work with the U.S. National Earthquake Prediction Evaluation Council
10. Japanese Earthquakes and the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster
11. Earthquakes in the Eastern and Central United States
12. Earthquake Risks to Nuclear-Power Reactors
13. Nuclear-Power Reactors in the United States: Lessons Learned from the Fukushima Disaster
14. Travels to Earthquake Countries and a Trip to the Earth’s Mantle in Newfoundland
15. Advances in Long-Term Earthquake Prediction: Future Prospects
Acknowledgments
Glossary
References
About the Author
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Lynn R. Sykes is Higgins Professor Emeritus of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory. His application of earthquake science to monitoring underground explosions was crucial to treaties limiting nuclear testing. He is the author of Silencing the Bomb: One Scientist’s Quest to Halt Nuclear Testing (Columbia, 2017).