The Evolving ContinentsWiley, 22 ago 1984 - 399 pagine A thoroughly revised edition of the highly successful geology textbook that discusses all important new developments in the field. New features include an introductory chapter, a chapter on the Himalayas, plus updated material on early active continental margins, crustal evolution, greenstone belts in India and West Australia, and granulite-gneiss belts in India and the Limpopo. Includes an updated bibliography. |
Sommario
Introduction | 1 |
Archaean GranuliteGneiss Belts | 8 |
Geochronology and Isotope Data | 16 |
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accretion Africa alkaline America amphibolite andesites anorthosites Archaean associated Atlantic aulacogen back-arc basalts basement batholiths calc-alkaline Cambrian Canada carbonate Carboniferous Chapter cherts clastic collision complexes continental crust continental margin continents Cordilleran craton Cretaceous crustal deformation deposits Devonian dolomites early Proterozoic evaporites evolution facies faults fold belt formed gabbro geological glacial gneisses graben granites granulites Greenland greenstone belts Grenville igneous intrusion iron formations island arcs Jurassic km thick late Precambrian lavas layered limestones lithosphere mafic magma major mantle marginal basins ments Mesozoic metamorphism mineralization mobile belts North occur oceanic crust ophiolite Ordovician orogenic belts palaeomagnetic Palaeozoic Pangaea Permian Phanerozoic plate tectonic plutons Precambrian Proterozoic Province quartzites rapakivi red beds reproduced by permission ridge rift rise sandstones schists sedimentary sediments seismic sequence shales shelf South spreading stromatolites subduction zone Supergroup suture terrain tholeiitic thrust tillites tion tonalitic trench Triassic Trough types ultramafic uplift volcanic rocks