Plate Tectonics Revolution

The Plate Tectonics Revolution was the scientific and cultural change which developed from the acceptance of the plate tectonics theory. The event was a paradigm shift and scientific revolution.[1]

By 1966 most scientists in geology accepted the theory of plate tectonics.[2] The root of this was Alfred Wegener's 1912 publication of his theory of continental drift, which was a controversy in the field through the 1950s.[2] At that point scientists introduced new evidence in a new way, replacing the idea of continental drift with instead a theory of plate tectonics.[2] The acceptance of this theory brought scientific and cultural change which commentators called the "Plate Tectonics Revolution".[2]

Response

In 1975 a paper said that "plate tectonics" gained general acceptance in its field in 1968 and called that acceptance a revolution.[3]

One scientist said that the Plate Tectonics Revolution brought excitement among scientists in the field in the 1960s.[4]

Publications in generations after the event reflected on how the Plate Tectonics Revolution was an early example of data science.[5]

One commentator claimed that the plate tectonics theory became popular and established a revolution in culture even before scientists could confirm some of the claims for which evidence was lacking.[6]

Advocates of Young Earth creationism challenge the theory.[7]

There are claims that science in Russia was a significant contribution to the Plate Tectonics Revolution, but Western bias against Russia has blocked recognition of their contributions.[8]

List of revolutionaries

Further reading

  • Mareschal, Jean-Claude (1987). "Plate tectonics: Scientific revolution or scientific program?". Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union. 68 (20): 529. doi:10.1029/EO068i020p00529-01.
  • Hallam, A. (1974). A revolution in the earth sciences from continental drift to plate tectonics (Repr. ed.). Oxford: Clarendon Press. ISBN 978-0198581451.
  • Iseda, Tetsuji (December 1996). "Philosophical Interpretations of the Plate Tectonics Revolution". tiseda.sakura.ne.jp.

References

  1. ↑ Casadevall, Arturo; Fang, Ferric C. (1 March 2016). "Revolutionary Science". mBio. 7 (2): e00158–16. doi:10.1128/mBio.00158-16.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Frankel, Henry (2009). "NEW OBJECTS AND IDEAS". Cambridge University Press: 383–394. doi:10.1017/CHOL9780521572019.021.
  3. ↑ Dietz, Robert S. (March 1977). "Plate tectonics: A revolution in geology and geophysics". Tectonophysics. 38 (1–2): 1–6. doi:10.1016/0040-1951(77)90197-4.
  4. ↑ Oliver, Jack (February 1991). "Seismology, the plate tectonics revolution, and making it happen again". Tectonophysics. 187 (1–3): 37–49. doi:10.1016/0040-1951(91)90411-K.
  5. ↑ Morford, Stacy (24 May 2016). "The Plate Tectonics Revolution: It Was All About the Data". State of the Planet. The Earth Institute.
  6. ↑ Le Pichon, Xavier (2013). [www.euresisjournal.org/public/article/pdf/LePichon.pdf "The "revolution" of Plate Tectonics in earth sciences and the relationship between science, reason, and truth"] Check |url= value (help) (PDF). Euresis Journal. 5 (summer): 109–124.
  7. ↑ Nevins, Stuart E. (1976). "Continental Drift, Plate Tectonics, and the Bible". Acts & Facts. 5 (2).
  8. ↑ Khain, Victor E.; Ryabukhin, Anatoly G. (2002). "Russian geology and the plate tectonics revolution". Geological Society, London, Special Publications. 192 (1): 185–198. doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.2002.192.01.09.
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