Soft Plate and Impact Tectonics

✍ Scribed by Prof. António Ribeiro (auth.)

Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year: 2002
Tongue: English
Leaves: 331
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

The rigid plate kinematics theory explains most of the current geodetic, geophysical and tectonic data on earth but fails to account for some anomalies. Spatial geodetic data has shown that oceanic plate interiors are not rigid because incipient boudinage and homogeneous shortening develop before buckling of the entire lithosphere. Seismicity and faulting show that the oceanic lithosphere can deform at strain rates above stable continental interiors but below plate boundary zones of variable widths. This is due to the weakening effects of fluids during hydrothermal sea floor metamorphism commonly found in oceans. Furthermore, the test of finiate strain and the implications of the Wilson Cycle are discussed. The Earth is a dissipative dynamical system open to external forcing.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-XII
Introduction....Pages 1-2
Global Tectonics with Rigid Plates: Foundations and Limitations....Pages 3-49
Global Tectonics with Deformable Plates....Pages 51-173
The Wilson Cycle Revisited....Pages 175-243
The Earth as a Dynamic Open System....Pages 245-269
Back Matter....Pages 271-324

✦ Subjects

Geology; Geophysics/Geodesy; Oceanography

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