Global Tectonics
ISBN: 9781405107778 | 1405107774
Edition: 3rdFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Pub. Date: 1/20/2009
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The third edition of this widely acclaimed textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to all aspects of global tectonics. Revisions to this new edition reflect the most significant recent advances in the field, providing a thorough, accessible, and up-to-date text. Combining a historical approach with process science, Global Tectonics provides a careful balance between geological and geophysical material in both continental and oceanic regimes. New and expanded chapters in this third edition include Precambrian tectonics and the supercontin... MORE
| Preface | |
| Acknowledgments | |
| Historical perspective | |
| Continental drift | |
| Sea floor spreading and the birth of plate tectonics | |
| Geosynclinal theory | |
| Impact of plate tectonics | |
| The interior of the Earth | |
| Earthquake seismology | |
| Introduction | |
| Earthquake descriptors | |
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| Earthquake location | |
| Mechanism of earthquakes | |
| Focal mechanism solutions of earthquakes | |
| Ambiguity in focal mechanism solutions | |
| Seismic tomography | |
| Velocity structure of the Earth | |
| Composition of the Earth | |
| The crust | |
| The continental crust | |
| Upper continental crust | |
| Middle and lower continental crust | |
| The oceanic crust | |
| Oceanic layer | |
| Oceanic layer | |
| Oceanic layer | |
| Ophiolites | |
| Metamorphism of oceanic crust | |
| Differences between continental and oceanic crust | |
| The mantle | |
| Introduction | |
| Seismic structure of the mantle | |
| Mantle composition | |
| The mantle low velocity zone | |
| The mantle transition zone | |
| The lower mantle | |
| The core | |
| Rheology of the crust and mantle | |
| Introduction | |
| Brittle deformation | |
| Ductile deformation | |
| Lithospheric strength profiles | |
| Measuring continental deformation | |
| Deformation in the mantle | |
| Isostasy | |
| Introduction | |
| Airy's hypothesis | |
| Pratt's hypothesis | |
| Flexure of the lithosphere | |
| Isostatic rebound | |
| Tests of isostasy | |
| Lithosphere and asthenosphere | |
| Terrestrial heat flow | |
| Continental drift | |
| Introduction | |
| Continental reconstructions | |
| Euler's theorem | |
| Geometric reconstructions of continents | |
| The reconstruction of continents around the Atlantic | |
| The reconstruction of Gondwana | |
| Geologic evidence for continental drift | |
| Paleoclimatology | |
| Paleontologic evidence for continental drift | |
| Paleomagnetism | |
| Introduction | |
| Rock magnetism | |
| Natural remanent magnetization | |
| The past and present geomagnetic field | |
| Apparent polar wander curves | |
| Paleogeographic reconstructions based on paleomagnetism | |
| Sea floor spreading and transform faults | |
| Sea floor spreading | |
| Introduction | |
| Marine magnetic anomalies | |
| Geomagnetic reversals | |
| Sea floor spreading | |
| The Vine-Matthews hypothesis | |
| Magnetostratigraphy | |
| Dating of the ocean floor | |
| Transform faults | |
| Introduction | |
| Ridge-ridge transform faults | |
| Ridge jumps and transform fault offsets | |
| The framework of plate tectonics | |
| Plates and plate margins | |
| Distribution of earthquakes | |
| Relative plate motions | |
| Absolute plate motions | |
| Hotspots | |
| True polar wander | |
| Cretaceous superplume | |
| Direct measurement of relative plate motions | |
| Finite plate motions | |
| Stability of triple junctions | |
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Phil Kearey was Senior Lecturer in Applied Geophysics in the Department of Earth Sciences at Bristol University, U.K. prior to his premature death in 2003. In his research he used various types of geophysical data, but gravity and magnetic data in particular, to elucidate crustal structure in the eastern Caribbean, Canadian shield and southern England.
Keith Klepeis is an Associate Professor in the Department of Geology at the University of Vermont, U.S.A. He specializes in the areas of structural geology and continental tectonics and has worked extensively on the evolution of orogenic belts and fault systems in New Zealand, Patagonia, West Antarctica, Australia, British Columbia and southeast Alaska.
Fred Vine is an Emeritus Professor in the School of Environmental Sciences at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, U.K. He was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of London and has received numerous awards for work on the interpretation of oceanic magnetic anomalies and ophiolites, fragments of oceanic crust thrust up on land, in terms of sea floor spreading.
Keith Klepeis is an Associate Professor in the Department of Geology at the University of Vermont, U.S.A. He specializes in the areas of structural geology and continental tectonics and has worked extensively on the evolution of orogenic belts and fault systems in New Zealand, Patagonia, West Antarctica, Australia, British Columbia and southeast Alaska.
Fred Vine is an Emeritus Professor in the School of Environmental Sciences at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, U.K. He was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of London and has received numerous awards for work on the interpretation of oceanic magnetic anomalies and ophiolites, fragments of oceanic crust thrust up on land, in terms of sea floor spreading.
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