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	Naomi Oreskes-Chapter 3: Reversals of Fortune
	The third chapter in Naomi Oreskes' Plate Tectonics: An Insider's History of the Modern Theory of the Earth, written Frederick Vine. Vine explains the contributions he made through out his scientific career, specfically in the 1960's, to the overall concept of plate tectonics. He provide ...
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	Naomi Oreskes-Chapter 4: The Zebra Pattern
	The fourth chapter in Naomi Oreskes' Plate Tectonics: An Insider's History of the Modern Theory of the Earth, written by Lawrence Morley. Morley describes his initial interest in geophysics and his eventual academic path into paleomagnetism. He highlights the battle of self-reversing rocks vs ...
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	Naomi Oreskes-Chapter 1: From Continental Drift to Plate Tectonics.
	The first chapter in Naomi Oreskes' Plate Tectonics: An Insider's History of the Modern Theory of the Earth. It provides a brief overview of the major historical contributions to the theory of plate tectonics. It starts with mention of Edward Suess' Contraction Theory in the later 1880's an ...
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	Naomi Oreskes-Chapter 2: Stripes on the Seafloor
	The second chapter in Naomi Oreskes' Plate Tectonics: An Insider's History of the Modern Theory of the Earth, written by Ron Mason. He describes the material and techniques that he used that led to the discovery of a linear pattern of magnetic ocean crust, including the design and use of th ...
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