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The Geology of Australia.
This book provides a vivid account of the evolution of the Australian continent over the last 4400 million years.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Melbourne :
Cambridge University Press,
2009.
©2009 |
| Edición: | 2nd ed. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations and units; 1 An Australian perspective; Australia: age, stability, climate, main features; Box 1.1 Radiometric dating of rocks; Box 1.2 What is geology?; Australian geology; 2 The Earth: A geology primer; Model of the Earth; Plate tectonics; Box 2.1 Age-dating the rocks; Minerals; Types of rocks; Box 2.2 Two types of volcanoes; Box 2.3 Metamorphism; Shaping of the landscape; Box 2.4 The Australian regolith and soils; Box 2.5 Caves; Coastal and offshore areas; Orogenic cycle; Geological time scale.
- 3 Building the core of Precambrian rocksThe original Earth; Archaean; Proterozoic; Box 3.1 Geology of Uluru and Kata-Tjuta; Origin of life; Box 3.2 Wilpena Pound and the Ediacaran fauna; Supercontinents: Rodinia and Gondwana; 4 Warm times: Tropical corals and arid lands; Part of Gondwana; Explosive radiation of life; Warm seas with arid plains, volcanic arcs and deep troughs; Granites; Box 4.1 Cooma
- granite emplacement and metamorphism 435
- 433 Ma ago; 5 Icehouse: Carboniferous and Permian glaciation; A glaciated continent; The volcanic arc; Development of the coal basins.
- Box 5.1 Glossopteris and the vegetation of the cold-climate peatlands in GondwanaBox 5.2 Burning mountain: Mt Wingen; 6 Mesozoic warming: The great inland plains and seas; Warm plains and then seas; Box 6.1 The great extinction of life 251 Ma ago; The great inland plains; Box 6.2 The Sydney Basin; Development of inland seas; 7 Birth of modern Australia: Flowering plants, mammals and deserts; Australia emerges; Box 7.1 Pollen data from brown coal and other Tertiary deposits; The last 15 million years: cooling and growth of the ice-caps; Australia's arid interior.
- 8 The history and evolution of life on EarthFossils; Box 8.1 How are fossils preserved?; History and evolution of life on earth; 9 Eastern highlands and volcanoes barely extinct; Volcanic provinces; Box 9.1 Basalts as a source of gemstones; Seamount chain offshore; Origins of the volcanics and the Great Divide; 10 Building the continental shelf and coastlines; Origin of the outline; Box 10.1 Australia's Exclusive Economic Zone; Sea levels; Types of coasts; Box 10.2 Tsunamis; Box 10.3 Coastal erosion problems; The Australian coastline; Box 10.4 Comparison of Sydney Harbour and Port Phillip Bay.
- 11 Great Barrier ReefIntroduction to reefs; Box 11.1 Effects of cyclones on the Great Barrier Reef; Reef types; Reef deposits; Formation of the Great Barrier Reef; Box 11.2 Extent of terrigenous sediment in the Great Barrier Reef; Continental slope and trough seaward of the Great Barrier Reef; 12 Planets, moons, meteorites and impact craters; Earth in context; Meteorites; Impact craters; Box 12.1 Large meteorite impacts: Eltanin and Chicxulub; Past and future of Earth in the Solar System; 13 A geological perspective on climate change; Geological factors influencing climate change.