ogist later described it as“probably t significant paper in to be denied publication.”

    At all events, mobile crust ant figures in ty in 1964, and suddenly, it seemed, everyone . ting agreed, erconnected segments ely jostlingsaccounted for muc’s surface behavior.

    tinental drift” ly discarded  t ion and not just tinents, but it took a tle on a namefor ts. At first people called tal blocks” or sometimes “pavingstones.” Not until late 1968, ion of an article by ts in ts receive tes. ticle called tetectonics.

    Old ideas die  everyone ruso embrace ting neot popular and influential geological textbooks, trenuously insisted t plate tectonics  as it  edition  ion and seafloor spreading. And in Basin and Range, publised t even t in eigill didn’t believe in plate tectonics.

    today  Eart to tes (depending ony or so smaller ones, and t directionsand at different speeds. Some plates are large and comparatively inactive, otenergetic. tal relationso t sit upon te, for instance, is mucinent  isassociated. It rougraces tline of tinent’s ern coast (ive, because of te boundary), butignores tern seaboard altogetead extends lantic to t do tectonically  of te event is no plates.

    tions bet o beinfinitely more complex tan, it turns out, taco Noraten Island, but only a corner, isEuropean. So is part of Nes beacsnearest kin tisantially American. Some of ton Range of Antarctica, it is t, may onceo tern U.S. Rocks, in s, get around.

    tant turmoil keeps tes from fusi