2/2: #EarthSciences: The joy of the revelation of Plate Tectonics in 1967 by Jason Morgan (d. 2023) at Princeton's Geology Department, 1967. Larry Cathles, Cornell University
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🗓️ 4 November 2023
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2/2: #EarthSciences: The joy of the revelation of Plate Tectonics in 1967 by Jason Morgan (d. 2023) at Princeton's Geology Department, 1967. Larry Cathles, Cornell University.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03145-9
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| 0:28.0 | odds of 4 to 1 in 3 selections tease and see supply. of Cornell University of Professor Emeritus of Geology and we're talking about a |
| 0:45.7 | groundswell of activity at the dusty Geology Department of Princeton University |
| 0:52.4 | brick-built someone on the back of the campus in |
| 0:55.1 | the 1960s, and in there was a brain trust put together by the Dean Harry H, and led by Bob Dickie, |
| 1:05.0 | the advisor to Jason Morgan |
| 1:08.0 | and the advisor to the undergraduate Larry Cathals, |
| 1:11.0 | who's here with us now. And we're talking about Fred Vine hired |
| 1:14.9 | from Cambridge University. So we had a brain trust and they're putting together a |
| 1:19.9 | theory that is mocked of plate tectonics and Jason Morgan takes his paper to the AG |
| 1:29.2 | you talk of 1967 and he puts together rises trenches great faults and crust the blocks. |
| 1:36.1 | How was it received professor when it was first in evidence? |
| 1:40.0 | I believe it was in Washington, D.C. |
| 1:49.6 | It was. And you know, he had another paper that he'd written an abstract for. It was about trenches in the Caribbean and gravity anomalies and he scrapped it and gave this talk |
| 1:59.1 | instead and instead of a published abstract he had a bunch of handouts that he gave to people. |
| 2:05.0 | It's a good question. I don't know. I suspect that at the time people would have thought it was a pretty interesting idea but would have been fairly skeptical of it. |
| 2:22.0 | It was elegant. There was data supporting it. I think he presented it very well. |
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