Plate Tectonics - Further Reading

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Plate Tectonics

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For younger readers

Gallant, Roy A. Dance of the Continents. Marshall Cavendish, 1999. For middle school readers and up.

Silverstein, Alvin, and others. Plate Tectonics. Twenty-First Century, 1998. An introduction for middle school readers and up.

Plate tectonics

Condie, Kent C. Plate Tectonics and Crustal Evolution. Reed Educational, 1998. An up-to-date survey of the field.

Kearey, Philip, and Frederick J. Vine. Global Tectonics. Blackwell, 1996. Comprehensive introduction to subject.

Keller, Edward A., and Nicholas Pinter. Active Tectonics: Earthquakes, Uplift, and Landscape. Prentice Hall, 2001. Makes the study of modern-day tectonics understandable.

Oreskes, Naomi, and Homer Le Grand, eds. Plate Tectonics: An Insider's History of the Modern Theory of the Earth. Westview, 2001. Seventeen essays by scientists who explain how plate tectonics works.

Sattler, Helen Roney. Our Patchwork Planet: The Story of Plate Tectonics. Lothrop, Lee & Shepard, 1995. An engaging book combining illustrations and text, for younger readers.