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Tectonics

Books about tectonics

Global Tectonics
This geophysics course text is suitable as an overview for graduate students preparing for qualifier or preliminary exams, and as an overview for active researchers. This edition includes a new chapter drawing together the coverage of continental rifts and sedimentary basins. There is expanded coverage, particularly of deep seismic reflection, hot spots and petrogenesis, and the addition of a section of full-colour plates.

Plate Tectonics: An Insider's History of the Modern Theory of the Earth

Plate Tectonics: Unravelling the Mysteries of the Earth
For anyone who is interested in developments in the study of the Earth's structure, this text offers an understanding of the theory that provides a single guiding principle to the earth's geological history. Beginning with a historical overview of plate tectonic theory in this century, the book describes how plate tectonics work, how it has affected evolution and extinction, and what the future holds.
The Origin of Mountains
This volume describes mountains from all over the world, with an emphasis on mountain landforms, but also looks at their rocks, structure and age. This leads to a deduction on the mechanism which formed them, causing the authors to reject the pre-conceived and well known hypothesis that plate tectonics and folding creates mountains. The book approaches mountains from facts about mountain landscapes rather than theory. It 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 part of the evidence, shows that mountain uplift correlates very well with climatic change.
Plate Tectonics and Crustal Evolution
This text presents a thorough coverage of plate tectonics and crustal evolution. This edition includes the latest research in supercontinents and mass extinctions. A new chapter covers the feedbacks of various Earth systems.

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