Mott T. Greene, 1982. Geology in the Nineteenth Century. Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY. 324 p., hard cover. $29.50.
The history of ideas in geotectonics, rather than in geology, is the subject matter of this book. The author describes four grand syntheses of the 19th century of what he calls global tectonics, that is, the origin of mountain ranges around the world and the distribution of continents and oceans. Greene discusses the mechanical motions, interactions, and characteristics of these big rock masses, using pertinent geological evidence from contemporary igneous and sedimentary petrology and geophysics. He does not discuss mineralogy,...
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