Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-271) and indexes.
CONTENTS NOTE
Text of Note
1. Continental Drift -- The Road to Plate Tectonics; 2. Plate Tectonics Now and in the Past; 3. Creation, Destruction, and Changes in Volume of Continental Crust Through Time; 4. Growth of Cratons and their Post-Stabilization Histories; 5. Assembly of Continents and Establishment of Lower Crust and Upper Mantle; 6. Assembly and Dispersal of Supercontinents; 7. Supercontinents Older than Gondwana; 8. Gondwana and Pangea; 9. Rifting of Pangea and Formation of Present Ocean Basins; 10. History of Continents after Rifting from Pangea.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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Surveys the origin of continents, and the accretion and breakup of supercontinents through earth history. This book also shows how these processes affected the composition of seawater, climate, and the evolution of life.
ACQUISITION INFORMATION NOTE
Source for Acquisition/Subscription Address
MIL
Stock Number
053295
OTHER EDITION IN ANOTHER MEDIUM
Title
Continents and supercontinents.
International Standard Book Number
0195165896
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Continental drift.
Continents.
Plate tectonics.
Continents-- Dérive.
Continents.
Tectonique des plaques.
Continental drift.
Continenten.
Continentes (origem;evolução)
Continents.
Plaattektoniek.
Planets-- Crust.
Plate tectonics.
SCIENCE-- Earth Sciences-- Geography.
SCIENCE-- Earth Sciences-- Geology.
Tectônica de placas.
GEOGRAPHICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Earth (Planet), Crust.
Terre, Croûte.
Earth (Planet)
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(SUBJECT CATEGORY (Provisional
SCI-- 030000
SCI-- 031000
DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION
Number
551
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1/36
Edition
22
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CLASSIFICATION
Class number
QE511
Book number
.
R59
2004eb
OTHER CLASS NUMBERS
Class number
38
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36
System Code
bcl
PERSONAL NAME - PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY
Rogers, John J. W., (John James William),1930-2015.