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Miklowitz's pedestrian once-over begins with an unexciting rundown of leading diassters, then goes on to such matters as where earthquakes are likely to occur and how they are detected. Transitions are jarringly artificial and phrasing barely functional--in re continental drift, ""In the 1960's Harry Hess of Princeton University put all that was known into a theory he called seafloor spreading."" True, Miklowitz's explanation of plate tectonics is better than none at all, but fortunately there are many. Most notably, Lauber's Earthquakes (1972) covered the same ground with incomparably more clarity and depth. Copyright ©Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.