The slowest waltz: in an edited extract from his book The Earth: an Initimate Portrait, award-winning palaeontologist Richard Fortey explains how the subterranean world has shaped the surface of the Earth and continues to influence our lives today.(Excerpt) From: Geographical | Date: June 1, 2004| Author: | COPYRIGHT 2004 Geographical Magazine. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information) Copyright information

Since the Earth formed some 4.5 billion years ago, it has been in a constant state of flux. The movement of tectonic plates conspires to cause the Earth's surface to dilate and collapse, the seas to rise and fall and the continents to move. It has created the continents and oceans that we know today. A unifying influence upon the world, it means that what goes on in the oceans is linked to what takes place in the mountains: the dipping and rising in the Bay of Naples is part and parcel of the fiery trail that led to Hawaii. Even the genesis of a single crystal might be a response ...

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