Tectonics: Precision is hallmark of 20-year study
Tuesday, March 23, 2010 - 09:49
in Astronomy & Space
When it comes to three-dimensional puzzles, Rubik's Cube pales in comparison with the latest creation of Rice University geoscientist Richard Gordon. Gordon and collaborators Chuck DeMets of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Donald Argus of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., have just put the finishing touches on a 20-year labour of love, a precise description of the relative movements of the interlocking tectonic plates that account for about 97 percent of Earth's surface...