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Dynamics of passive margins

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Corporate Authors: Inter-Union Commission on Geodynamics. Working Group 8.
Group Author: Scrutton, R. A.
Published:
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
Series: Geodynamics series ; v. 6.
Subjects:
Continental margins.
Geodynamics.
Géodynamique.
Précontinents.
Kontinentalabhang.
Geodynamik.
Aufsatzsammlung.
Electronic books.
Online Access: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1029/GD006
Item Description: "Final report of Working Group 8 ..."--Verso title page.
Carrier Form: 1 online resource (200 pages) : illustrations.
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN: 9781118670439 (electronic bk.)
1118670434 (electronic bk.)
Index Number: GC84
CLC: P54
Contents: Passive continental margins : a review of observations and mechanisms / R.A. Scrutton -- Geophysical studies on oceanic margins of the USSR / I.P. Kosminskaya -- Structure and development of the polar margin of North America / J.F. Sweeney -- The passive margins of northern Europe and East-Greenland / O. Eldholm and M. Talwani -- The continental margins of eastern Canada : a review / C.E. Keen -- Continental margin subsidence : a comparison between the east and west coasts of Africa / R.V. Dingle -- Australian rifted margins / J.J. Veevers -- Gravity measurements bordering passive continental margins / P.D. Rabinowitz -- Evaporites at passive margins / P.A. Rona -- Crustal structure and development of sheared passive continental margins / R.A. Scrutton -- The state of stress at passive continental margins / D.L. Turcotte -- Stress based tectonic mechanisms at passive continental margins / M.H.P. Bott -- Thermal contractions beneath Atlantic margins / N.H. Sleep -- A thermal model for the elevation of continental fragments / L.T. Long and R.P. Lowell -- Metastable phase transitions and progressive decline of gravitational energy : aspects of Atlantic type margin dynamics / H.J. Neugebauer and T. Spohn -- Subsidence history and tectonic evolution of Atlantic-type continental margins / M.S. Steckler and A.B. Watts -- Subsidence of continental margins : the case for alternatives to thermal contraction / L.L. Sloss.

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