| Description |
xvi, 526 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
Ch. 1. Introduction -- Ch. 2. The Plate Tectonic Paradigm -- Ch. 3. Palaeomagnetism and Continental Tectonics -- Ch. 4. Palaeoclimatology and the Fossil Record -- Ch. 5. Rifts to Oceans -- Ch. 6. Island Arcs -- Ch. 7. Continental Margin Orogens: the Western Americas -- Ch. 8. The Alps and the Cenozoic Deformation of Europe -- Ch. 9. The Himalaya and the Cenozoic Deformation of Asia -- Ch. 10. Pangaea: Permian-Triassic -- Ch. 11. The Variscan Orogen -- Ch. 12. Caledonian - Appalachian Orogen -- Ch. 13. Late Proterozoic Supercontinents, Basins, Dykes, Glaciations and Life Forms -- Ch. 14. Late Proterozoic Orogens -- Ch. 15. The Mid-Proterozoic Supercontinent and the Grenville Orogen -- Ch. 16. Early Proterozoic Orogens, Magmatism and Sediments -- Ch. 17. Crustal Evolution in the Proterozoic -- Ch. 18. Late Archaean Basins, Dykes and Layered Intrusions -- Ch. 19. Archaean Greenstone - Granite Belts -- Ch. 20. Archaean Granulite - Gneiss Belts |
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Ch. 21. Crustal Evolution in the Archaean -- Ch. 22. The Evolving Continents |
| Analysis |
Tectonics |
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Tectonics |
| Notes |
Bibliography: p466-515. _ Includes index |
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Previous ed.: 1984 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [466]-515) and index |
| Subject |
Continental drift.
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Geodynamics.
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| LC no. |
94035374 |
| ISBN |
0471917397 |
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