Author: D. G. HowellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 604
Book Description
Tectonostratigraphic Terranes of the Circum-Pacific Region
Author: D. G. HowellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 604
Book Description
Scope and Status of the Circum-Pacific Map Project 1988
Author: Warren O. AddicottPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cartography
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
New Publications of the Geological Survey
Author: Geological Survey (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 818
Book Description
The Jurassic of the Circum-Pacific
Author: Gerd Ernst Gerold WestermannPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521019927
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 696
Book Description
In this work, 60 specialists come together to discuss the regional occurrences of Jurassic rocks. Not only is this the first comprehensive synthesis of Jurassic geology and palaeontology, but it is in fact the only one of its kind for any geological system.
U.S. Geological Survey Circular
Author: The Cross Section
Author: Open-file Report
Author: Defining the Pacific
Author: Fred SpierPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040234070
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
This volume lays the physical and conceptual groundwork for the Pacific World series, exploring both the constraints imposed and the opportunities offered to humanity by the physical environment of the Pacific region. Organized from the perspectives of "Big History" and macro-geography, the volume presents a series of major studies and surveys by authors from a range of disciplines. It opens with perspectives on the ocean, and closes with questions of human settlement, diffusion, and trans-Pacific contacts. Geologists write of the origins of the Pacific, its geological structure, and the problem of tsunamis; climatologists and oceanographers discuss the El Niño Southern Oscillation and the ocean waters; biologists and biogeographers find patterns in the life of the Basin - as is shown, all these have their impact on the potential of the region for human use and settlement. Finally, geographers, anthropologists, and archaeologists deal with the peopling of the Pacific islands, the settlement of the Americas, and the incidence and importance of pre-modern links across the Pacific.
Monthly Catalogue, United States Public Documents
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
Tectonic Growth of a Collisional Continental Margin
Author: Kenneth D. RidgwayPublisher: Geological Society of America
ISBN: 0813724317
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 676
Book Description
"The convergent margin of southern Alaska is considered one of the type areas for understanding the growth of continental margins through collisional tectonic processes. Collisional processes that formed this margin were responsible for multiple episodes of sedimentary basin development, subduction complex growth, magmatism, and deformation. Two main collisional episodes shaped this Mesozoic-Cenozoic continental margin. The first event was the Mesozoic collision of the allochthonous Wrangellia composite terrane. This event represents the largest addition of juvenile crust to western North America in the past 100 m.y. The second event is the ongoing collision of the Yakutat terrane along the southeastern margin of Alaska. This Cenozoic event has produced the highest coast mountain range on Earth (Saint Elias Mountains), the Wrangell continental arc, and sedimentary basins throughout southern Alaska. Active collisional processes continue to shape the southern margin of Alaska, mainly through crustal shortening and strike-slip deformation, large-magnitude earthquakes, and rapid uplift and exhumation of mountain belts and high sedimentation rates in adjacent sedimentary basins. This volume contains 24 articles that integrate new geophysical and geologic data, including many field-based studies, to better link the sedimentary, structural, geochemical, and magmatic processes that are important for understanding the development of collisional continental margins."--Publisher's website.