The Evolving Continents.[Archaean high-grade regions;Mid-Proterozoic basic-ultrabasic intrusions; The mid-proterozoic mobile belt in the North Atlantic region;Palaeomagnatism and continental drift; Hercynian fold belt; Pangaea; Plate tectonics and sea floor spreading; Alpine fold belt]
by Windley, Brian F
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New York ; London ; Sydney ; Toronto : John Wiley & Sons, 1977., 1977. Fine. xviii, 385 pp. ; ISBN: 0471994758 ; LCCN: 76-56416 ; green cloth in colorful pictorial dust jacket ; Contents : Archaean high-grade regions -- Archaean greenstone belts -- Crustal evolution in the Archaean -- Early to Mid-Proterozoic basic-ultrabasic intrusions -- Early to Mid-Proterozoic basins and geosynclines -- The mid-proterozoic mobile belt in the North Atlantic region -- Mid-late proterozoic basins, dykes, glaciations and life forms -- Continental evolution in the proterozoic -- Palaeomagnatism and continental drift -- Palaeoclimatology and the fossil record -- Caledonian-Appalachian fold bet -- The Hercynian fold belt -- Pangaea : Late carboniferous-Early Jurassic -- The break-up of Pangaea : Mesozoic-Cainozoic -- Plate tectonics and sea floor spreading -- Island arcs -- Continental margin orogenic belts : the American cordillera -- The Alpine fold belt -- The evolving continents -- Index ; name marked out on front ep, else FINE
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- The Evolving Continents.[Archaean high-grade regions;Mid-Proterozoic basic-ultrabasic intrusions; The mid-proterozoic mobile belt in the North Atlantic region;Palaeomagnatism and continental drift; Hercynian fold belt; Pangaea; Plate tectonics and sea floor spreading; Alpine fold belt]
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- New York ; London ; Sydney ; Toronto : John Wiley & Sons, 1977.
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- alps appalachians continents drift plate tectonics proterozoic pangaea gondwanaland geology climate fossils shelf earth faults earthquakes magma magnetism oceans minerals rift sea floor sediments tethys rocks
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