TECTONIC PLATES - How the World Changed

This brief, simplified account is just what I wanted on this topic today. The book's description seems precisely accurate to me.

It's not a well-written book. It presents the information in a muddled process. The information is all there, but needs to be organized.

In this field, it is important to have a modern book. Its special features, lacking in many more detailed textbooks, are that there is one simple map for each major geological period (Cambrian, Ordovician, etc.) and that each map is reproduced on the same cartographic grid projection specially prepared for this book. Many books are confusing because they show different views of the planet at different times and, often, too many views for people to get a grip on. With this book, anyone from any country in the world can look at the maps and tell where their country was at any time in the geological past and how it got there. Highly recommended.

Handy pocket book but serious readers should go to internet or get a text book.

Disappointing when it should have been perfect. In some respects, with its nice simple maps, it was an excellent approach to what was happening when, but. . . It would have been better with more information about the changes during and after the breakup of panagea. And the one major error, about one of the few things that I did know - that the americas did not separate off from panagea as a connected unit, but were joined together only after a considerable time - left one very uncertain about how valid and reliable any of his information would be.

I'm reading a lot about plate tectonics and paleogeography at the moment, and it is always very helpful to have some handy reminder of how things stood, plate wise, at different periods in earth history, to orientate oneself around the science.

Easy to understand. Good accessible science.

I got it as I don't have the energy to read a long scientific discourse on this interesting subject. This is succinct and with diagrams which make the subject easy to grasp.

Good