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Building the Cape Verde Islands

Hotspots are enigmatic surface features that are not easily explained in the framework of plate tectonics. Investigating their origin is the goal of this thesis, using field evidence collected in the Cape Verde Islands, a prominent hotspot archipelago in the eastern Atlantic Ocean. The approach take...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ramalho, Ricardo A. S. (Autor)
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2011.
Edición:1st ed. 2011.
Colección:Springer Theses, Recognizing Outstanding Ph.D. Research,
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Acceso en línea:Texto Completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • The Cape Verde Archipelago
  • Constraining the Cape Verde Swell using numerical models
  • How to trace island freeboard
  • Tracers of uplift and subsidence in the Cape Verde Archipelago
  • Dating of sea-level palaeo-markers
  • Vertical movements of Ocean Island Volcanoes: insights from a stationary plate
  • Conclusions
  • Future Work
  • Bibliography.