Processes of continental rifting : selected papers from the Lunar and Planetary Institute Topical Conference on the Processes of Planetary Rifting, held in St. Helena, California, U.S.A., December 3-5, 1981 /

Selected papers from the Lunar and Planetary Institute Topical Conference, St. Helena, CA, USA, 3-5 Dec. 1981.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores Corporativos: Lunar and Planetary Institute Topical Conference on the Processes of Planetary Rifting Saint Helena, Calif., Lunar and Planetary Institute
Otros Autores: Morgan, P. (Paul), Baker, B. H. (Brian Howard)
Formato: Electrónico Congresos, conferencias eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; New York : Elsevier, 1983.
Colección:Developments in geotectonics ; 19.
Temas:
Rifts (Geology) > Congresses.
Foss�es (G�eologie) > Congr�es.
SCIENCE > Earth Sciences > Geography.
SCIENCE > Earth Sciences > Geology.
Rifts (Geology)
Rifts.
Congress
Conference papers and proceedings.
Actes de congr�es.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Mechanism of graben formation
  • the wedge subsidence hypothesis / M.H.P. Bott and D.P. Mithen
  • Rifts and swells : geophysical constraints on causality / S.T. Crough
  • Mechanisms of active and passive rifting / D.L. Turcotte and S.H. Emerman
  • Mechanisms of uplift preceding rifting / J.-C. Mareschal
  • Convective thinning of the lithosphere : a mechanism for rifting and mid-plate volcanism on Earth, Venus and Mars / T. Spohn and G. Schubert
  • Mechanical aspects of continental rifting / H.J. Neugebauer
  • Submarine rifting at mid-ocean ridges / G.T. Jarvis
  • Hotspot tracks and the early rifting of the Atlantic / W.J. Morgan
  • Mechanism of subsidence of ancient cratonic rift basins / R.F. DeRito, F.A. Cozzarelli and D.S. Hodge
  • Phenomena of pulsation tectonics related to the breakup of the eastern North America continental margin / R.E. Sheridan
  • Gravity study of the Central African Rift system : a model of continental disruption. 1, The Ngaoundere and Abu Gabra rifts / S.E. Browne and J.D. Fairhead
  • Gravity study of the Central African Rift system : a model of continental disruption. 2, The Darfur domal uplift and associated Cainozoic volcanism / P.M. Bermingham, J.D. Fairhead and G.W. Stuart
  • Baikal rift : active or passive?
  • comparison of the Baikal and Kenya rift zones / N.A. Logatchev, V.A. Zorin and V.A. Rogozhina
  • Processes of planetary rifting as seen in the rifting and break up of Africa / R.W. Girdler
  • The distribution and implications of heat flow from the Gregory Rift in Kenya / K. Crane and S. O'Connell
  • Constraints on rift thermal processes from heat flow and uplift / P. Morgan
  • Magnetotelluric results opposing magma origin of crustal conductors in the Rio Grande rift / G.R. Jiracek, E.P. Gustafson and P.S. Mitchell
  • Crustal structure of the northern Mississippi embayment and a comparison with other continental rift zones / W.D. Mooney [and others]
  • The role of seismic refraction data for studies of the origin and evolution of continental rifts / K.H. Olsen
  • Crustal structure of rifted continental margins : geological constraints from the Proterozoic rocks of the Canadian shield / R.M. Easton
  • The role of rifting in the tectonic development of the midcontinent, U.S.A. / G.R. Keller [and others]
  • Geologic and geochemical evidence for the nature and development of the Middle Proterozoic (Keweenawan) midcontinent rift of North America / J.C. Green
  • Timing and chemistry of igneous events associated with the southern Oklahoma aulacogen / M.C. Gilbert
  • Origin of the Oslo graben in relation to the Hercynian-Alleghenian orogeny and lithospheric rifting in the North Atlantic / M.J. Russell and D.K. Smythe
  • Active versus passive continental rifting : evidence from the West African rift system / J.G. Fitton
  • Tectonic and geologic evolution of the Espa�nola basin, Rio Grande rift : structure, rate of extension, and relation to the state of stress in the western United States / M.P. Golombek, G.E. McGill and L. Brown
  • The Morton-Black hypothesis for the thinning of continental crust
  • revisited in western Afar / P. Mohr
  • Continental rift jumps / C. Wood
  • Surface deformation in volcanic rift zones / D.D. Pollard [and others]
  • The chemical and thermal evolution of rifts / D.K. Bailey
  • Major stages of rifting evolution in the earth's history / E.E. Milanovsky
  • Continental rifting and porphyry-molybdenum occurrences in the Oslo region, Norway
  • H.K. Sch�onwandt and J.S. Petersen
  • Accumulation of fossil fuels and metallic minerals in active and ancient rift lakes / E.I. Robbins
  • Geothermal resources of rifts : a comparison of the Rio Grande rift and the Salton trough / C.A. Swanberg.

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