Screen LibraryGeodynamics 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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Elsevier,
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| Publisher Address: | Amsterdam : |
| Publication Dates: | 1992. |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Publications 194, 195, and 196 of the International Lithosphere Program
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http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/book/9780444899125 |
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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 petrologi |
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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." |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (viii, 253 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: |
9781483295084 1483295087 |
| Index Number: | QE606 |
| CLC: | P542 |