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Challenger at Sea: A Ship That Revolutionized Earth Science - Hsü, Kenneth Jinghwa
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The famous geological research ship Glomar Challenger was a radically new instrument that revolutionized earth science in the same sense that the cyclotron revolutionized nuclear physics, and its deep-sea drilling voyages, conducted from 1968 through 1983, were some of the great scientific adventures of our time. Beginning with the vessel's first cruises, which lent support to the idea of continental drift, the Challenger played a key part in the widely publicized plate-tectonics revolution and its challenge to more ...

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Challenger at Sea: A Ship That Revolutionized Earth Science 2016, Princeton University Press, New Jersey

ISBN-13: 9780691637648

Hardcover

Challenger at Sea: A Ship That Revolutionized Earth Science 2014, Princeton University Press, New Jersey

ISBN-13: 9780691609331

Trade paperback

Challenger at Sea: A Ship That Revolutionized Earth Science 1992, Princeton University Press, Princeton

ISBN-13: 9780691087351

Hardcover