Plate tectonics gave a great stimulus to marine geology and geophysics; in the years since its enunciation there have been major drilling programmes, a new science of global palaeoenvironmental oceanography and much more detailed oceanographic surveys. The pace shows no sign of slackening—in the next few years the passive continental margins will be much studied.
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Le Pichon, X. 1967–77: Ten years of marine geology and geophysics. Nature 267, 765–769 (1977). https://doi.org/10.1038/267765a0
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