Author: Robert Baer SmithPublisher: Geological Society of America
ISBN: 0813711525
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Cenozoic Tectonics and Regional Geophysics of the Western Cordillera
Author: Robert Baer SmithPublisher: Geological Society of America
ISBN: 0813711525
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper
Author: The Origin of Mountains
Author: Cliff OllierPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134638787
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
The Origins of Mountains approaches mountains from facts about mountain landscapes rather than theory. The book illustrates that almost everywhere, mountains arose by vertical uplift of a former plain, and by a mixture of cracking and warping by earth movements, and erosion by rivers and glaciers, the present mountainous landscapes were created. It also gives evidence that this uplift only occured in the last few million years, a time scale which does not fit the plate tectonics theory. Another fascinating part of the evidence, shows that mountain uplift correlates very well with climatic change. Mountain building could have been responsible for the onset of the ice age. It certainly resulted in the creation of new environments. Fossil plants and animals are used in places to work out the time of mountain uplift, which in turn helps to explain biogeographical distributions.
U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin
Author: Stratigraphy and Structure of the Seaman Range and Fox Mountain, Lincoln and Nye Counties, Nevada
Author: D. O. HurtubisePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
A multidisciplinary approach to research studies of sedimentary rocks and their constituents and the evolution of sedimentary basins, both ancient and modern.
Surge Tectonics: A New Hypothesis of Global Geodynamics
Author: Arthur A. MeyerhoffPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9400917384
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
TECTONlCS AND PHYSICS Geology, although rooted in the laws of physics, rarely has been taught in a manner designed to stress the relations between the laws and theorems of physics and the postulates of geology. The same is true of geophysics, whose specialties (seismology, gravimetIy, magnetics, magnetotellurics) deal only with the laws that govern them, and not with those that govern geology's postulates. The branch of geology and geophysics called tectonophysics is not a formalized discipline or subdiscipline, and, therefore, has no formal laws or theorems of its own. Although many recent books claim to be textbooks in tectonophysics, they are not; they are books designed to explain one hypothesis, just as the present book is designed to explain one hypothesis. The textbook that comes closest to being a textbook of tectonophysics is Peter 1. Wyllie's (1971) book, The Dynamic Earth. Teachers, students, and practitioners of geology since the very beginning of earth science teaching have avoided the development of a rigorous (but not rigid) scientific approach to tectonics, largely because we earth scientists have not fully understood the origin of the features with which we are dealing. This fact is not at all surprising when one considers that the database for hypotheses and theories of tectonics, particularly before 1960, has been limited to a small part of the exposed land area on the Earth's surface.
The Motion of Allochthonous Terranes Across the North Pacific Basin
Author: Michel G. DebichePublisher: Geological Society of America
ISBN: 0813722071
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 57
Book Description
U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin
Author: Harry GlickenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
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