عنوان

Tectonics /

(Number (ISBN

1478621990

(Number (ISBN

9781478621997

Title Proper

Tectonics /

General Material Designation

[Book]

First Statement of Responsibility

Eldridge M. Moores, Robert J. Twiss, University of California at Davis.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Long Grove, Illinois :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Waveland Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

[2014]

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

©2014

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

xi, 415 pages :

Other Physical Details

illustrations, maps ;

Dimensions

28 cm

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 392-402) and index.

Text of Note

Overview -- Geophysical techniques in tectonics -- Principal tectonic features of the Earth -- Plate tectonics -- Divergent margins and rifting -- Transform faults, strike-slip faults, and related fracture zones -- Convergent margins -- Tectonics and geology of selected triple junctions -- Collisions -- Interlude: The scientific method and the plate tectonics revolution -- Anatomy of orogenic belts -- Neotectonics -- Case studies of orogenic belts -- Tectonicis of terrestrial planets -- Appendix: Map projections.

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Deformation of the Earth's crust happens at a multitude of scales, ranging from submicroscopic to planetary. Tectonics explores structures and processes from regional to global, differentiating itself from the material covered in most structural geology textbooks. Moores and Twiss emphasize basic principles and methodologies of tectonics, embracing the time-honored perspective of using present processes to understand the past. Comprehensive in scope and detail, coverage includes the effects of plate motions and reconstructions and the resultant structures associated with active rift, transform, and subduction boundaries as well as triple junctions and collision zones; deformations of both the ocean basins and the continents; and orogenic belts. Moores and Twiss present tectonics as an open-ended field of study in which assumptions can be challenged and interpretations changed. The authors emphasize the use of models as a means of understanding observations and putting them in context to maintain a distinction between what we know from observing the Earth and what we infer from interpretation.

Plate tectonics.

Plate tectonics.

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Book number

Moores, Eldridge M.,1938-

Twiss, Robert J.

Date of Transaction

20200823031405.0

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rda

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