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Author : Kenneth R. McClay
Publisher : Blackwell Scientific Publications Limited
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 594 pages
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Download or read book Thrust and Nappe Tectonics written by Kenneth R. McClay and published by Blackwell Scientific Publications Limited. This book was released on 1981 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kenneth R. McClay
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)
Download or read book Thrust Tectonics written by Kenneth R. McClay and published by Springer. This book was released on 1992 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together the key papers from the recent Thrust Tectonics Conference held at Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, University of London, and is grouped into thematic sections. It covers the most recent multidisciplinary research and theories in a clear, concise manner. Topics covered include theory and mechanics of thrust faulting, numerical modelling, analogue modelling, geometrics of thrust systems and thrust related folding, and field based studies of the Pyrenees, the Alps, the Himalayas and the NW American Cordillera.
Author : Eldridge M. Moores
Publisher : Waveland PressInc
ISBN 13 : 9781478621997
Total Pages : 415 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)
Download or read book Tectonics written by Eldridge M. Moores and published by Waveland PressInc. This book was released on 2014-07 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deformation of the Earth's crust happens at a multitude of scales, ranging from submicroscopic to planetary. Tectonics explores structures and processes from regional to global, differentiating itself from the material covered in most structural geology textbooks. Moores and Twiss emphasize basic principles and methodologies of tectonics, embracing the time-honored perspective of using present processes to understand the past. Comprehensive in scope and detail, coverage includes the effects of plate motions and reconstructions and the resultant structures associated with active rift, transform, and subduction boundaries as well as triple junctions and collision zones; deformations of both the ocean basins and the continents; and orogenic belts. Moores and Twiss present tectonics as an open-ended field of study in which assumptions can be challenged and interpretations changed. The authors emphasize the use of models as a means of understanding observations and putting them in context to maintain a distinction between what we know from observing the Earth and what we infer from interpretation.
Author : Wolfgang Frisch
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030889998
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)
Download or read book Plate Tectonics written by Wolfgang Frisch and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-11-26 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This textbook explains how mountains are formed and why there are old and young mountains. It provides a reconstruction of the Earths paleogeography and shows why the shapes of South America and Africa fit so well together. Furthermore, it explains why the Pacific is surrounded by a ring of volcanos and earthquake-prone areas while the edges of the Atlantic are relatively peaceful. This thoroughly revised textbook edition addresses all these questions and more through the presentation and explanation of the geodynamic processes upon which the theory of continental drift is based and which have led to the concept of plate tectonics. It is a source of information for students of geology, geophysics, geography, geosciences in general, general natural sciences, as well as professionals, and interested layman.
Author : Elizabeth J. Catlos
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119773849
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)
Download or read book Compressional Tectonics written by Elizabeth J. Catlos and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2023-06-14 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A synthesis of current knowledge on collisional and convergent plate boundaries worldwide Major mountain belts on Earth, such as the Alps, Himalayas, and Appalachians, have been built by compressional tectonic processes during continent-continent and arc-continent collisions. Understanding their formation and evolution is important because of the hazards associated with convergent and collisional plate boundaries, and because these mountain belts contain resources such as precious metals, rare earth elements, oil, gas, and coal. Compressional Tectonics: Plate Convergence to Mountain Building reviews our present-day knowledge of the tectonic evolution of the Alpine-Himalayan and Appalachian belts. Volume highlights include: overview of terminology relating to compressional and contractional tectonics discussion of subduction zone dynamics debates over the timing of the collision and convergence of particular subduction and suture zones examples of the different stages in the development of orogenic belts This book is one of a set of three Tectonic Processes: A Global View The American Geophysical Union promotes discovery in Earth and space science for the benefit of humanity. Its publications disseminate scientific knowledge and provide resources for researchers, students, and professionals.
Author : Arthur Edward Nelson
Publisher :
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Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)
Download or read book Stacked Crystalline Thrust Sheets and Episodes of Regional Metamorphism in Northeastern Georgia and Northwestern South Carolina written by Arthur Edward Nelson and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thrust sheets that underlie the Greenville quadrangle in northeastern Georgia and in northwestern South Carolina have been selectively metamorphosed and deformed during several Paleozoic prograde metamorphic events.
Author : Stefano Mazzoli
Publisher : Geological Society of America
ISBN 13 : 0813724147
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)
Download or read book Styles of Continental Contraction written by Stefano Mazzoli and published by Geological Society of America. This book was released on 2006 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This Special Paper includes a selection of material on the various contractional styles and modes of deformation in internal and external zones, and in deep and shallow parts of orogens. The collection of case studies discusses a broad range of processes and phenomena, including thrust tectonic styles (detachment-dominated vs. thick-skinned, or crustal ramp-dominated) in different subduction and collision orogens; modes and timing of thrust-fold and fabric development; the role of tectonic inversion processes and of strain localization vs. distributed deformation; and syn-convergence extensional deformation (and related tectonic exhumation) in orogens. Case studies are from the Zagros, the Apennines, the Appalachians, the Tasmanides of Eastern Australia, and the Moine Thrust Belt. A review of the main subduction- and collision-related orogens of the world is also provided, including the Alps, the Himalayas, the North American Cordillera, the Andes, the Caledonides of Scotland, the Appalachians, the Alice Springs orogeny in Australia, and the Aleutian and Makran accretionary wedges."--Publisher's website.
Author : Timothy H. Dixon
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231138666
Total Pages : 696 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Seismogenic Zone of Subduction Thrust Faults written by Timothy H. Dixon and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Subduction zones, one of the three types of plate boundaries, return Earth's surface to its deep interior. Because subduction zones are gently inclined at shallow depths and depress Earth's temperature gradient, they have the largest seismogenic area of any plate boundary. Consequently, subduction zones generate Earth's largest earthquakes and most destructive tsunamis. As tragically demonstrated by the Sumatra earthquake and tsunami of December 2004, these events often impact densely populated coastal areas and cause large numbers of fatalities. While scientists have a general understanding of the seismogenic zone, many critical details remain obscure. This volume attempts to answer such fundamental concerns as why some interplate subduction earthquakes are relatively modest in rupture length (greater than 100 km) while others, such as the great (M greater than 9) 1960 Chile, 1964 Alaska, and 2004 Sumatra events, rupture along 1000 km or more. Contributors also address why certain subduction zones are fully locked, accumulating elastic strain at essentially the full plate convergence rate, while others appear to be only partially coupled or even freely slipping; whether these locking patterns persist through the seismic cycle; and what is the role of sediments and fluids on the incoming plate. Nineteen papers written by experts in a variety of fields review the most current lab, field, and theoretical research on the origins and mechanics of subduction zone earthquakes and suggest further areas of exploration. They consider the composition of incoming plates, laboratory studies concerning sediment evolution during subduction and fault frictional properties, seismic and geodetic studies, and regional scale deformation. The forces behind subduction zone earthquakes are of increasing environmental and societal importance.
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Total Pages : 534 pages
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Download or read book Sedimentation and Tectonics of Western North America written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Arthur A. Meyerhoff
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9400917384
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)
Download or read book Surge Tectonics: A New Hypothesis of Global Geodynamics written by Arthur A. Meyerhoff and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TECTONlCS AND PHYSICS Geology, although rooted in the laws of physics, rarely has been taught in a manner designed to stress the relations between the laws and theorems of physics and the postulates of geology. The same is true of geophysics, whose specialties (seismology, gravimetIy, magnetics, magnetotellurics) deal only with the laws that govern them, and not with those that govern geology's postulates. The branch of geology and geophysics called tectonophysics is not a formalized discipline or subdiscipline, and, therefore, has no formal laws or theorems of its own. Although many recent books claim to be textbooks in tectonophysics, they are not; they are books designed to explain one hypothesis, just as the present book is designed to explain one hypothesis. The textbook that comes closest to being a textbook of tectonophysics is Peter 1. Wyllie's (1971) book, The Dynamic Earth. Teachers, students, and practitioners of geology since the very beginning of earth science teaching have avoided the development of a rigorous (but not rigid) scientific approach to tectonics, largely because we earth scientists have not fully understood the origin of the features with which we are dealing. This fact is not at all surprising when one considers that the database for hypotheses and theories of tectonics, particularly before 1960, has been limited to a small part of the exposed land area on the Earth's surface.
