UID:
almafu_9960073862902883
Umfang:
1 online resource (x, 488 pages) :
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illustrations
ISBN:
1-4832-8955-9
Serie:
Developments in Geotectonics ; 10
Anmerkung:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Front Cover; The Expanding Earth; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; PARI I: INTRODUCTORY REVIEW; CHAPTER 1. FACE OF THE EARTH; Suess; Wegener; The orocline concept; Decades in contempt; The primary rift system; A shotgun wedding; Kuhnian revolution; A new round of red-herrings; CHAPTER 2. DEVELOPMENT OF EXPANDING EARTH CONCEPT; CHAPTER 3. NECESSITY FOR EXPANSION; Gaping gores; Hierarchy of extension; Dispersion of polygons; The Pacific paradox; The Arctic paradox; The young oceans; CHAPTER 4. THE SUBDUCTION MYTH; Two false axioms; Trenches are not where they should be; Which side moves?
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Trench sediments are not deformed as they should be; Trench sediments do not go into orogens; No Moho bend oceanward from trench; Continents are welded to their own mantle; Universal tension; All motion is up behind the trench; Kinematic contrast; Orogenic and metamorphic energies do not fit; Blue schists and paired metamorphic belts; Seismic misinterpretation; Seismic attenuation; Higher velocity under Benioff zone; CHAPTER 5. DEFINITIONS; Oroclines; Coupled oroclines; Rhombochasm; Sphenochasm; Sphenopiezm; Orotath; Oroclinotath; Nematath; Megashear; Restrictions
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Philosophy of orocline concept; PART II: SOME PRINCIPLES; CHAPTER 6. SCALE OF TECTONIC PHENOMENA; Length-time fields of deformation; Geological examples of scale fields; Experimental tectonics; Other Planets; CHAPTER 7. NON-UNIFORMITARIANISM; Kinds of change; Non-uniform parameters; Non-uniform expression; Non-uniformitarianism - retrospect; CHAPTER 8. TECTONIC PROFILE; Local hydrostatic stress; Crustal extension; Pure shear; Simple shear with vertical axis; Fluid pressures; Failure at the free surface; Simple shear with horizontal axis; Explosions; Implosions
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Departure from isostatic equilibrium; Global hydrostatic state; General summary of the tectonic profile; CHAPTER 9. PALAEOMAGNETISM; Review; Abortive attempts to measure palaeoradius; Global palaeomagnetism require expansion; Palaeomagnetism confirms orocline tectonics; CHAPTER 10. ASYMMETRY OF THE EARTH; Asymmetry of figure; Geophysical asymmetry; Dynamic asymmetry; Summary of asymmetries; Asymmetry is normal; Control and constraints of asymmetry; CHAPTER 11. ROTATION OF THE EARTH; Nomenclature; Precessions, nutations, librations and wobbles, at fixed obliquity; Variation of obliquity
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Variation of rate of rotation; Variation of period of revolution; CHAPTER 12. MODES OF CRUSTAL EXTENSION; Cambium ridges; Whaleback tumours; Deckenschrund ridges; Dyke swarms; Categories of submarine ridges; PART III: REGIONAL; CHAPTER 13. WESTERN NORTH AMERICA; Tectonic Setting; The San Andreas system; Mendocino and Idaho oroclines; Basin-and-range; Cascadan Province; CHAPTER 14. CENTRAL AMERICA; Tectonic control; Constraints on reconstruction; Regional tectonics; CHAPTER 15. SOUTH-EAST ASIA; The Ninetyeast ridge; Asia-Australia reconstruction; Tectonic zones of South-East Asia; India and Malay Peninsula
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English
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 1-322-25723-X
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0-444-41485-1
Sprache:
Englisch
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