<p>This essential volume explores the slow but mighty shifts that created the continents and that continue to shape modern landscapes. Readers will look at theories put forward through the ages to explain volcanoes and earthquakes, and they'll examine how geologists learned what we now understand ab
Plate Tectonics
β Scribed by XAVIER LE PICHON, JEAN FRANCHETEAU and JEAN BONNIN (Eds.)
- Publisher
- Academic Press, Elsevier
- Year
- 1973
- Leaves
- 304
- Series
- Developments in Geotectonics 6
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Table of Contents
Content:
Further Titles in this Series
Page ii
Front Matter
Page iii
Copyright page
Page iv
Foreword
Page v
A.Reinier Ritsema
Preface
Pages vii-viii
Inside front Cover
Page xiii
Chapter 1 - Introduction
Pages 1-2
Chapter 2 - Definition
Pages 3-6
Chapter 3 - Rheological stratification of the mantle
Pages 7-18
Chapter 4 - Kinematics of relative movements
Pages 19-125
Chapter 5 - Movements relative to a frame external to the plates
Pages 127-153
Chapter 6 - Processes at accreting plate boundaries
Pages 155-207
Chapter 7 - Processes at consuming plate boundaries
Pages 209-276
Appendix
Pages 277-278
References
Pages 279-300
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