Geodynamics of rifting:

This volume contains papers giving an interdisciplinary review of 12 major rift systems from North and South America, Africa, Europe and Asia. These papers are written by an international group of academic and industrial specialists each of whom is most knowledgeable about the respective rift. The a...

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Weitere Verfasser: Ziegler, Peter A. (HerausgeberIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Amsterdam Elsevier 1992
Schriftenreihe:Publication (International Lithosphere Program) no. 194-196
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Zusammenfassung:This volume contains papers giving an interdisciplinary review of 12 major rift systems from North and South America, Africa, Europe and Asia. These papers are written by an international group of academic and industrial specialists each of whom is most knowledgeable about the respective rift. The analyzed rifts were selected on the basis of availability of an as-complete-as-possible geological and geophysical data base. Thirteen papers deal with geodynamic processes governing the evolution of rifts. A comprehensive digest of the available stratigraphic, structural, geophysical and petrological data, together with an extensive list of references, is provided for each of the analyzed rift systems. The megatectonic setting and dynamics of evolution of each basin is discussed. Geodynamic models are tested against the record of the analyzed rifts. The question of "active" as against "passive" rifting is addressed. The rifts analyzed range in age from Precambrian to Recent and cover a wide spectrum of megatectonic settings. There is discussion of the evolution of rifts in a plate-tectonic frame. The case histories are followed by discussions addressing the global setting of rifts and geodynamic processes active during the development of rifted basins
Beschreibung:Selected papers from the Geodynamics of Rifting Symposium, organized by Working Group 3 of the Inter-Union Commission on the Lithosphere, and held at Glion-sur-Montreux, Nov. 4-11, 1990. - "Reprinted from Tectonophysics, volume 208, no. 1-3, volume 213, no. 1-2, and volume 215, no. 1-2."
Includes bibliographical references
Beschreibung:1 online resource (viii, 253 pages) illustrations, maps
ISBN:9781483295084
1483295087
044489912X
9780444899125