Nature PastCast - September 1963: Plate Tectonics

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Nature PastCast – September 1963: Plate Tectonics This month's PastCast: Earthquakes, volcanoes, the formation of mountains - we understand all these phenomena in terms of plate tectonics: large-scale movements of the earth’s crust. But when a German geologist first suggested that continents move, people dismissed it as a wild idea. In this podcast, we hear how a ‘wild idea’ became the unifying theory of earth sciences. Data from the sea floor was key; it showed that the floor was spreading, which was pushing continents apart. Fred Vine recalls the reaction when he published this idea in Nature. To Subscribe for free to the weekly Nature Podcast copy and paste this URL into iTunes or your preferred media player: Nature Podcast rss feed. Share:    Facebook        Twitter        LinkedIn        Digg        StumbleUpon     As a registered user of Nature Publishing Group's Web sites, our database indicates that you have opted-in to receive product information and special offers. If you no longer wish to receive these e-mails or to discontinue all e-mail services from Nature Publishing Group please update your online account. Modify My Account (Log in to be recognised as a Nature.com registrant). For further information on technical assistance | print subscriptions | other enquiries. Nature Publishing Group | Principal offices: London | New York and Tokyo, and offices in cities worldwide including Boston | Buenos Aires | Cairo | Delhi | Mumbai | Hong Kong | Madrid | Barcelona | Munich | Heidelberg | Basingstoke | Melbourne | Paris | San Francisco | Seoul and Washington DC. Macmillan Publishers Limited is a company incorporated in England & Wales under company number 785998 & whose registered office is located at Brunel Road, Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS. Nature Publishing Group | 75 Varick St Fl 9 | New York | NY 10013-1917 | USA © 2013 Nature Publishing Group, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited. All rights reserved.