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Beyond Plate Tectonics: Consequence of Earth's Formation as a Jupiter-Like Gas Giant
For nearly half a century, the planetesimal theory dominated scientific thought about Earth's formation. Earth and other planets were thought to have formed from dust grains that collided and stuck together, becoming progressively larger bodies and finally planets. But there was confusion; the pieces in this theory did not match critical observations about the Earth’s comp...more
ebook, 100 pages
Published
April 19th 2012
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J. Marvin Herndon is an American interdisciplinary scientist who earned his BA degree in physics in 1970 from the University of California, San Diego and his PhD degree in nuclear chemistry in 1974 from Texas A&M University. For three years, Herndon was a post-doctoral apprentice to Hans E. Suess and Harold C. Urey in geochemistry and cosmochemistry at the University of California, San Diego....more
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