Large-scale geologic structures
This text is a translation of "Les Grandes Structures Geologiques", Paris 1997. It is devoted to the study of major geological features such as oceanic ridges, continental margins, sedimentary basins and mountain chains.
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- Full title :Large-scale geologic structures / Jacques Debelmas, Georges Mascle ; translated from French by N. Venkat Rao.
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This text is a translation of "Les Grandes Structures Geologiques", Paris 1997. It is devoted to the study of major geological features such as oceanic ridges, continental margins, sedimentary basins and mountain chains.
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- Publication Date:2020.
- Edition:1st
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- Publisher(s):CRC Press
- Place of Publication:Boca Raton
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2020.
Notes
Translated from the French.
Originally published: Rotterdam: Balkema, 1998.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781000150698, 1000150690, 9781003078036, 1003078036, 9781000121735, 1000121739, 9781000100013, 1000100014
- DOI:10.1201/9781003078036
- oclc:on1198586885
- LC Classification:QE601
- Dewey Decimal:551.8
Table of Contents
PREF ACE TO THE FIRST EDITION -- PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION -- INTRODUCTION: NOTIONS ON THE EARTH'S CRUST AND LITHOSPHERE -- Continental Crust -- Oceanic Crust -- Transition from Continental Crust to Oceanic Crust -- Lithosphere and Isostasy -- PART ONE OCEANIC STRUCTURES -- Chapter 1: SEISMICALLY ACTIVE OCEANIC RELIEFS -- Ridges -- Morphology -- Significance of Ridges and Oceanic Accretion -- Ridge Rocks -- Age of Ridges -- Sea-floor Spreading -- Transform Faults -- Island Arcs -- A. Tonga-Kermadec or Mariana Type Arcs -- B. Japan or Insulinde Type Arcs -- Chapter 2: SEISMICALLY INACTIVE OCEANIC RELIEFS -- Volcanic Reliefs -- Non-volcanic Reliefs -- PART TWO EXTENSIONAL STRUCTURES OF THE CONTINENTS -- Chapter 1: SEDIMENT ARY BASINS -- Rift Valleys -- Classical Rifts -- Rhine Graben -- Gulf of Suez -- Rift of Great East African Lakes -- Rift of Lake Baikal -- 'Pull-apart' Rifts -- 'Basin and Range' Type Extension -- Basins Proper (Cratonic Basins) -- Paris Basin -- Complex Basins -- Mixed Basins -- Aulacogens -- Aquitaine basin in the Cretaceous -- Benue basin (Nigeria) -- Aulacogen of Athapuscow or Great Slave Lake, Canada -- Transverse-Fault Basins -- Small Neogene basins of t…
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