print email comment close This Dynamic Earth: The Story of Plate Tectonics URL: http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/dynamic/ Description: This site provides "a brief introduction to the concept of plate tectonics," and "highlights some of the people and discoveries that advanced the development of the theory and traces its progress since its proposal." Includes illustrations. Online edition of a book "originally published in paper form in February 1996." From the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). Publisher: United States Geological Survey (USGS) Extra Keywords earthquakes volcanoes hotspots Library of Congress Subject Headings: Geology Plate tectonics LII Database Information: Record 15527 created by Dana Lubow on 10/16/1999 Last modification on 03/12/2006 Published: 10/16/1999   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/15527