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1 online resource (296 pages) |
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""Margins: A Research Initiative for Interdisciplinary Studies of Processes Attending Lithospheric Extension and Convergence""; ""Copyright""; ""PREFACE""; ""Contents""; ""PART I REPORT OF THE CONTINENTAL MARGINS WORKSHOP""; ""Executive Summary""; ""OVERVIEW""; ""Mechanics of Faulting""; ""Fluid Flow""; ""Growth and Modification of Continental Crust""; ""Depositional Systems at the Edge of the Continents""; ""DEVELOPMENT OF A SCIENCE PLAN""; ""Formation of a Margins Initiative Committee""; ""Organization of Workshops""; ""1 Introduction""; ""IMPETUS FOR THE WORKSHOP"" |
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""ORGANIZATION AND SUPPORT OF THE WORKSHOP""""Passive Margins""; ""Active Margins""; ""CHARGES TO THE WORKING GROUPS""; ""2 Results of the Workshop""; ""MARGIN PROCESSES: A NEW RATIONALE FOR RESEARCH INTO LITHOSPHERIC CONVERGENCE AND DIVERGENCE""; ""Divergent Margins""; ""Convergent And Translational Margins""; ""Deformational Processes""; ""Magmatic Processes""; ""Fluid Flow""; ""Sedimentation Processes""; ""Mantle Dynamics""; ""FUTURE DIRECTIONS FOR RESEARCH ON MARGIN PROCESSES: REQUIREMENTS FOR SUCCESS""; ""Communication and Collaboration Among Scientists""; ""Databases"" |
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""Computational Facilities""""Scientific Drilling""; ""Seismic Facilities""; ""Chemical Analytical Facilities""; ""Theoretical and Computational Studies""; ""3 Components of A Margins Initiative""; ""A NEW APPROACH FOR MARGINS RESEARCH""; ""A MARGINS INITIATIVE COMMITTEE""; ""PLANNING WORKSHOPS""; ""DRAFTING A SCIENTIFIC PLAN""; ""PART II REPORTS OF THE WORKING GROUPS""; ""4 Passive Margins: Group 1 Mechanics of Rifting and Associated Magmatism ""; ""PREAMBLE""; ""Surface Geological Mapping in the Basin and Range Province"" |
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""Deep Seismic Reflection Profiling On Extended Continental Lithosphere and Laboratory Measurements of Lithospheric Materials""""Shallow Marine Reflection Profiling and Surface Geologic Studies of the East African Rift System""; ""Marine Geophysical Studies of the Deep Structure of Passive Margins in the Central and North Atlantic Oceans""; ""Theoretical Modeling of Subsidence and Thermal History In Sedimentary Basins and the Lithosphere a Continuum""; ""Isotope And Trace Element Analysis of Rift Volcanics and Xenoliths""; ""THE SINGLE MOST IMPORTANT SCIENTIFIC OBJECTIVE"" |
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""NEEDED STUDIES""""Determine the Distribution of Three-Dimensional Strain in the Lithosphere""; ""Low-Angle Normal Faulting in the Crust""; ""The Interplay Between Extension and the Rheological Stratification of the Lithosphere""; ""Structural and Magmatic Segmentation of Rifts in the Context of the Mechanics of Rifting and Heterogeneities of the Lithosphe""; ""Determine the Causes of Compositional, Temporal, and Spatial Variations in Magmatism and Degassing""; ""Vertical and Lateral Magmatic Transport""; ""The Transition From Rift to Ridge Magmatism"" |
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""Mobility of the Crust-Mantle Boundary During Rifting"" |
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Print version record |
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Plate tectonics -- Congresses
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Continental margins -- Congresses
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Planets -- Crust.
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Continental margins.
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Plate tectonics.
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Earth (Planet) -- Crust -- Congresses
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Earth (Planet)
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780309543279 |
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0309543274 |
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