![]() This extensive work culminated in a book entitled Geodynamics: Application of Continuum Mechanics to Geological Problems and really defined a new field. This modeling has been designed to address the question of how the plates are driven around the Earth. In one citation, a colleague said, “It is fair to say that if it moves, Don will model it.” Turcotte proposed a boundary-layer theory of convection for the circulation of the mantle. He developed a new direction in geology by constructing sophisticated mathematical models of the processes especially with regard to plate motions. He proceeded to apply his considerable expertise in engineering to geology in a thoroughly unique manner. He was a National Science Foundation postdoctoral fellow in 1965 at Oxford University in England when he learned about plate tectonic processes and had a reawakening. He began as an aerospace engineer successfully studying combustion, magnetohydrody-namics, plasma physics, and lasers. (1932- ) American Geophysicist (Fluid Dynamics)ĭonald Turcotte has truly led two successful careers.
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