| Description | Working file entitled 'Errors of Minear & Toksoz', relating to the paper: McKenzie, D, "Comments on paper by John W Minear & M Nafi Toksoz 'Thermal regime of a downgoing slab and new global tectonics'", 'Journal of Geophysical Research', vol 76 (1971), pp607-626.
Comprises: manuscript notes and equations; set of FORTRAN computer punchcards and data sets; copy of paper 'Response to comments by T C Hanks and J H Whitcomb on the paper "Thermal regime of a downgoing slab and new global tectonics" by J W Minear and M N Toksöz'; copy letter from McKenzie to Lynn R Sykes, Associate Editor of the 'Journal of Geophysical Research', enclosing a critical referee report of an academic paper he has been sent to review [although the title and authors are not stated, it is presumably the original Minear and Toksoz paper], 3 July 1969; manuscript letter from Thomas C Hanks, Graduate Research Assistant, Seismological Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, USA, forwarding a copy of a letter he has sent to John Minear disagreeing with the calculations in the Minear & Toksoz paper, April 1970. |
| Administrative History | The file concerns the various replies and responses between the authors of the paper, Minear, J W & M N Toksoz, "Thermal regime of a downgoing slab and new global tectonics", 'Journal of Geophysical Research' vol 75 (1970) pp1397-1419, and McKenzie, Bruce P Luyendyk [Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution] and Thomas C Hanks & James H Whitcomb [both of the Seismological Laboratory, Caltech] who disputed its data, which appeared in print in the letter pages of volume 76 (1971) pp607-626. |