What a story! The characters are entire continents--moving around the surface of the Earth, crashing into each other, crushing islands, raising mountain ranges and opening and closing vast oceans--and the plot is nothing less than the formation of the planet on which we live. The world`s geological past is a mystery of vanished oceans, towering mountain ranges and crashing continents. How did these evolutionary changes happen?

In Canada, a scientific project called Lithoprobe uses huge earth-pounding trucks known as "dancing elephants." Scientists send shockwaves deep down to the Earth`s crust which bounce back once they have hit a surface below. The readings show what is going on below the earth`s surface right down to the tectonic plates that underlie the land beneath our feet. With this information, scientists can now map the Earth`s core and solve the mysteries of its evolution.

Dancing Elephants and Floating Continents provides a fascinating and readily understandable explanation of the history of the Earth--how it has evolved and changed--and how it continues to change, shift and grow. Filled with detailed, full-colour illustrations and original lithographic prints of the Earth`s core, this is a unique, educational and just plain cool view of the Earth we stand on.