在70年代以来出版的英文的地质学论著中,以板块构造为书名的已不下5种。不过,它们中的大多数要么是创建板块构造学说的经典论文的选集,要么是关于该学说的定性的概括介绍。能够定量计算和预测岩石圈板块的运动,使板块构造理论超越了以往任何一种活动论大地构造假说。在板块构造理论业已确立20多年的今天,大多数地质工作者和地质院系的学生对 In the English geology treatises published since the 1970s, there are no fewer than five species whose titles are plate tectonics. However, most of them are either a collection of classic essays that create plate tectonics or a qualitative summary of the doctrine. It can quantitatively calculate and predict the lithospheric plate movement and make the plate tectonic theory surpass any one of the past active tectonic hypotheses. In the plate tectonics theory has been established more than 20 years today, most geologists and geology faculty students