International Geological Congress and Plate Tectonics

Maps for the International Geological Congress at Madrid.

Qua Vadimus? PROFESSOR ERNST COHEN .................... 407 So-called Volcanic Earthquakes: DR. T. A. JAGGAR...... 414 New York City as a Field for Earthquake Study: DR. CHESTER A. REEDS .. ................. 415 William E. Safford: DR. WILL C. BARNES ................-. . ....... 418 Scientific Events: Development of the Biological Laboratory at Cold Spring Harbor; The Mellon Lectures at the Uni...

Comment on "Intermittent plate tectonics?".

Silver and Behn (Reports, 4 January 2008, p. 85) proposed that intermittent plate tectonics may resolve a long-standing paradox in Earth's thermal evolution. However, their analysis misses one important term, which subsequently brings their main conclusion into question. In addition, the Phanerozoic eustasy record indicates that the claimed effect of intermittency is probably weak.

Afrotheria: plate tectonics meets genomics.

A frotheria is one of the most remarkable hypotheses in mammal evolution. It suggests that one-third of the orders of placental mammals form an ancient group that evolved on Africa when that continent was isolated from others through plate tectonics (1). Although this hypothesis has been predicted by molecular clock studies (2), evidence for it has emerged only in the last 3 years from phylogen...

Plate tectonics and basin subsidence history

Tectonic setting exerts fi rst-order control on basin formation as refl ected in basin subsidence history. While our approach ignores the effects of fl exural loading and eustatic sea-level change, consistency of backstripped subsidence histories (i.e., with local loading effects of sediment removed) suggests consistent tectonic driving mechanisms in each tectonic setting, with the possible exc...

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