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Tectonics of Suspect Terranes - Mountain building and continental growth (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1989)
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Tectonics of Suspect Terranes - Mountain building and continental growth (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1989)
Series: Topics in the Earth Sciences
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Year by year the Earth sciences grow more diverse, with an
inevitable increase in the degree to which rampant specialization
isolates the practitioners of an ever larger number of sub fields.
An increasing emphasis on sophisticated mathematics, physics and
chemistry as well as the use of advanced technology have. set up
barriers often impenetrable to the uninitiated. Ironically, the
potential value of many specialities for other, often
non-contiguous once has also increased. What is at the present time
quiet, unseen work in a remote corner of our discipline, may
tomorrow enhance, even revitalize some entirely different area. The
rising flood of research reports has drastically cut the time we
have available for free reading. The enormous proliferation of
journals expressly aimed at small, select audiences has raised the
threshold of access to a large part of the literature so much that
many of us are unable to cross it. This, most would agree, is not
only unfortunate but downright dangerous, limiting by sheer bulk of
paper or difficulty of comprehension, the flow of information
across the Earth sciences because, after all it is just one earth
that we all study, and cross fertilization is the key to progress.
If one knows where to obtain much needed data or inspiration, no
effort is too great. It is when we remain unaware of its existence
(perhaps even in the office next door) that stagnation soon sets
in.
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