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By: Book review – The Invention of Nature: The Adventures of Alexander Von Humboldt, the Lost Hero of Science | The Inquisitive Biologist

Tue, 11 Feb 2025 19:37:39 +0000

[…] (p. 128), whether indicating past human migrations or the movement of landmasses (prefiguring plate tectonics by more than a century). “No one had ever approached botany in this way” (p. 128). […]

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By: Book review – The Story of Earth’s Climate in 25 Discoveries: How Scientists Found the Connections Between Climate and Life | The Inquisitive Biologist

Fri, 08 Nov 2024 11:42:52 +0000

[…] contained in deep-sea sediment cores and Arctic ice cores. The numerous lines of evidence for plate tectonics. The geochemical evidence showing past changes in the composition of the atmosphere. The importance […]

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By: Book review – Mysteries of the Deep: How Seafloor Drilling Expeditions Revolutionized Our Understanding of Earth History | The Inquisitive Biologist

Thu, 15 Aug 2024 15:24:06 +0000

[…] deal with continental drift and plate tectonics. This decades-long saga, examined at length in e.g. The Tectonic Plates are Moving!, saw independent lines of evidence pile up, even as the idea continued to be staunchly resisted. […]

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By: Book review – The Trilobite Collector’s Guide | The Inquisitive Biologist

Thu, 25 Jul 2024 11:59:15 +0000

[…] trilobite species showing up in outcrops on different continents is a key observation in support of plate tectonics. Another theme is the fossilised evidence of behaviour such as enrollment, traces of predation, the […]

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By: Book review – Too Big to Walk: The New Science of Dinosaurs | The Inquisitive Biologist

Thu, 02 Nov 2023 12:40:14 +0000

[…] Wallace, Darwin, and the Origin of Species. And much has been written about Alfred Wegener and the history of plate tectonics, I will just leave you with Four Revolutions in the Earth Sciences: From Heresy to […]

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By: Book review – Radical by Nature: The Revolutionary Life of Alfred Russel Wallace | The Inquisitive Biologist

Wed, 01 Nov 2023 15:23:57 +0000

[…] and Wallace’s 1880 book Island Life dug deeper into the why. Before continental drift and plate tectonics, land bridges were all the rage though would sometimes have required outlandish proportions to […]

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By: Book review – Dinosaurs – 10 Things You Should Know: 230 Million Years for People Short on Time | The Inquisitive Biologist

Thu, 08 Dec 2022 11:49:21 +0000

[…] in separate environments. In making this observation, this essay introduces concepts such as plate tectonics, the supercontinent cycle, and […]

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By: Book review – When the Sahara Was Green: How Our Greatest Desert Came to Be | The Inquisitive Biologist

Mon, 15 Aug 2022 13:15:47 +0000

[…] (p. 180) without further explanation. We have a reasonable idea of the near-future course of the tectonic plates, so Williams’s answer invites a new why-question that unfortunately goes […]

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By: Book review – Notes from Deep Time: A Journey Through Our Past and Future Worlds | The Inquisitive Biologist

Fri, 04 Mar 2022 12:51:22 +0000

[…] working with deep time are in the business of decompression” (p. 22). When explaining how the theory of plate tectonics came together, she of course pays homage to Alfred Wegener but cleverly points out that “you can tell the […]

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By: Book review – Fire & Ice: The Volcanoes of the Solar System | The Inquisitive Biologist

Sun, 26 Dec 2021 13:07:13 +0000

[…] its stagnant lid. On Mars, we have found a similar pattern of geomagnetic stripes that on Earth was one line of evidence for plate tectonics, though whether this supports past plate tectonics on Mars remains an open question. And then there […]

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