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Continental Tectonics.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Washington :
National Academies Press,
1900.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- ""Continental Tectonics""; ""Copyright""; ""Studies in Geophysics""; ""PREFACE""; ""Contents""; ""OVERVIEW AND RECOMMENDATIONS""; ""THE PLATE-TECTONIC FRAMEWORK""; ""THE CONTINENTS AND PLATE TECTONICS""; ""CURRENT CAPABILITIES""; ""CONTINENTAL TECTONICS IN PROPOSED GEOSCIENCE PROGRAMS""; ""RECOMMENDATION""; ""BIBLIOGRAPHY""; ""I SUMMARY ""; ""1 Plate Tectonics and the Continents: A Review ""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""PLATE BOUNDARIES""; ""Divergent Boundary Systems""; ""Transform Boundary Systems""; ""Convergent Boundary Systems""; ""Noncollisional Convergent Systems""
- ""Collisional Convergent Boundary Systems""""NON-PLATE-BOUNDARY SYSTEMS""; ""Intraplate Magmatic Activity""; ""Intraplate Vertical Movements""; ""Intraplate Deformation""; ""CONCLUSIONS""; ""References""; ""2 Problems of Pre-Mesozoic Continental Evolution ""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""TIME CALIBRATION OF THE TECTONIC RECORD""; ""CONTINENTAL TECTONICS FROM THE PRE-ARCHEAN THROUGH THE PALEOZOIC""; ""The Interplanetary Connection""; ""The Archean Need not be Arcane""; ""Proterozoic Perimeters in Space and Time""; ""ARE PALEOZOIC PLATES MORE PALATABLE THAN PRECAMBRIAN?""; ""Reference""
- ""II PLATE-BOUNDARY TECTONICS """"3 Complexities of Modern and Ancient Subduction Systems ""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""ACTIVE CONTINENTAL MARGINS""; ""BEHAVIOR OF MODERN ISLAND ARCS""; ""MECHANISM OF SUBDUCTION""; ""PRE-CRETACEOUS ISLAND-ARC AND MÃ?LANGE ASSEMBLAGES OF THE WESTERN UNITED STATES""; ""CRETACEOUS AND CENOZOIC CALIFORNIA""; ""Subduction Configuration""; ""Late Cenozoic Disruption""; ""References""; ""4 Intracontinental Rifts and Aulacogens ""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""RIFTS IN THE WILSON CYCLE""; ""RIFTS AT CONTINENTAL BREAKUP""; ""CONVERGENT BOUNDARY RIFTS""; ""COLLISIONAL RIFTS""
- ""Aulacogens""""Impactogens""; ""NORTH AMERICAN INTRACONTINENTAL RIFTS AND AULACOGENS""; ""Active Rifts""; ""Reactivated Rifts""; ""Failed Rifts at Atlantic-Type Margins""; ""Aulacogens""; ""CONCLUSIONS""; ""References""; ""5 Evolution of Outer Highs on Divergent Continental Margins ""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""STRUCTURAL-STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS AT DIVERGENT CONTINENTAL-OCEANIC CRUSTAL BOUNDARIES""; ""Geological Observations""; ""Geophysical Evidence for Outer Highs""; ""SUMMARY OF EVOLUTION OF DIVERGENT (PASSIVE) CONTINENTAL MARGINS""
- ""TECTONIC-SEDIMENTARY MODEL FOR THE EVOLUTION OF OUTER HIGHS ON DIVERGENT MARGINS""""PROBLEMS AND RECOMMENDATIONS""; ""SUMMARY""; ""ACKNOWLEDGMENTS""; ""References""; ""III INTRAPLATE TECTONICS ""; ""6 Tectonics of Noncollisional Regimes ""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""SEISMIC EVIDENCE FOR INTRAPLATE COMPRESSION""; ""GEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE FOR INTRAPLATE DEFORMATION RELATED TO NONCOLLISIONAL PLATE CONVERGENCE""; ""Western Terrane""; ""Central or Magmatic-Arc Terrane""; ""Eastern Terrane""; ""Colorado-Wyoming Rocky Mountain Terrane""; ""PROBLEMS""; ""References""