Global tectonics /
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| Author / Creator: | Kearey, P. |
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| Edition: | 2nd ed. |
| Imprint: | Oxford [England] ; Malden, MA : Blackwell Science, 1996. |
| Description: | x, 333 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4867334 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Historical perspective
- Internal structure of the Earth
- Continental drift
- Sea floor spreading
- The framework of plate tectonics
- Ocean ridges
- Transform and subcurrent faults
- Subduction zones
- Mountain ranges
- Continental rifts and sedimentary basins
- The mechanism of plate tectonics
- Implications of plate tectonics
- Review questions
- References
- Index
