Tectonics and Geochemistry of the Northeastern Caribbean
Author: Edward G. Lidiak
Publisher: Geological Society of America
Published: 1998-01-01
Total Pages: 226
ISBN-13: 9780813723228
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Author: Edward G. Lidiak
Publisher: Geological Society of America
Published: 1998-01-01
Total Pages: 226
ISBN-13: 9780813723228
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Thomas H. Anderson
Publisher: Geological Society of America
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 629
ISBN-13: 0813725135
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"The objective of this volume is to characterize geologic relationships and settings at the margin of the Laurasia plate from Middle Jurassic to the Early Cretaceous, overlapping the time of the opening of the central Atlantic basin, with the intent of assessing the compatibility of the features with contemporaneous, sinistral fault movement"--Introduction, page v.
Author: Paul Mann
Publisher: Geological Society of America
Published: 2005-01-01
Total Pages: 311
ISBN-13: 081372385X
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Published: 1984
Total Pages: 302
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: John J. W. Rogers
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2004-09-16
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 019029020X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTo this day, there is a great amount of controversy about where, when and how the so-called supercontinents--Pangea, Godwana, Rodinia, and Columbia--were made and broken. Continents and Supercontinents frames that controversy by giving all the necessary background on how continental crust is formed, modified, and destroyed, and what forces move plates. It also discusses how these processes affect the composition of seawater, climate, and the evolution of life. Rogers and Santosh begin with a survey of plate tectonics, and go on to describe the composition, production, and destruction of continental and oceanic crust, and show that cratons or assemblies of cratons became the first true continents, approximately one billion years after the earliest continental crust evolved. The middle part of the book concentrates on supercontinents, beginning with a discussion of types of orogenic belts, distinguishing those that formed by closure of an ocean basin within the belt and those that formed by intracontinental deformation caused by stresses generated elsewhere. This information permits discrimination between models of supercontinent formation by accretion of numerous small terranes and by reorganization of large old continental blocks. This background leads to a description of the assembly and fragmentation of supercontinents throughout earth history. The record is most difficult to interpret for the oldest supercontinent, Columbia, and also controversial for Rodinia, the next youngest supercontinent. The configurations and pattern of breakup of Gondwana and Pangea are well known, but some aspects of their assembly are unclear. The book also briefly describes the histories of continents after the breakup of Pangea, and discusses how changes in the composition of seawater, climate, and life may have been affected by the sizes and locations of continents and supercontinents.
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Published: 1971
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: James F. Dolan
Publisher: Geological Society of America
Published: 1998-01-01
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9780813723266
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Published: 1998
Total Pages: 76
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: I. Davison
Publisher: Geological Society of London
Published: 2021-03-25
Total Pages: 560
ISBN-13: 1786204940
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume brings together 17 comprehensive, data-rich analyses to provide an updated perspective on the Mexican Gulf of Mexico, Florida and northern Caribbean. The papers span a broad range of scales and disciplines from plate tectonic evolution to sub-basin scale analysis. Papers are broadly categorised into three themes: 1) geological evolution of the basins of the southern Gulf of Mexico in Mexico, Bahamas and Florida and their hydrocarbon potential; 2) evolution of the region’s Late Cretaceous to Neogene orogens and subsequent denudation history; and 3) geological evolution of the basins and crustal elements of the northern Caribbean. This book and its extensive data sets are essential for all academic and exploration geoscientists working in this area. Two large wall maps are included as fold-outs.
Author: Sebastiaan Knippenberg
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 382
ISBN-13: 9087280084
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis archaeological study reconstructs Pre-Columbian exchange networks in the Lesser Antilles based on lithic artefact distributions among the different islands.