ABSTRACT
In the summer of 1967, Jason's paper on plate tectonics arrived at Lamont in pre-print form, and Lynn circulated it to ah of people who might be interested. Insofar as continental tectonics is best described by continuous deformation, that simplicity is lost. As at Scripps, excellent work had been done at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in plate tectonics, but as much by graduate students, such as Don Forsyth, Norman Sleep, and Sean Solomon, as by the staff. Plate tectonics had an enormous effect on the earth sciences, even though only a small fraction of the field actually worked with the relevant data. Studying continental tectonics was not so easy; the literature was vast even before plate tectonics was recognized. Fortunately, by the mid-1970s, however, most of it either was irrelevant or had been assimilated into the boilerplate of common knowledge.
