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Sedimentary basins of continental margins and cratons /

Developments in Geotectonics, 12: Sedimentary Basins of Continental Margins and Cratons focuses on the formation, movements, characteristics, and evolution of sedimentary basins of continental margins and cratons. The selection first offers information on mechanisms of basin subsidence and rheology...

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Corporate Authors: Elsevier Science & Technology; Inter-Union Commission on Geodynamics
Group Author: Bott, Martin Harold Phillips, 1926
Published: Elsevier Scientific Pub. Co. : Distributors for the United States and Canada Elsevier/North Holland,
Publisher Address: Amsterdam ; New York :
Publication Dates: 1976.
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
Series: Developments in geotectonics ; 12
Inter-Union Commission on Geodynamics scientific report ; no. 27
Subjects:
Continental margins
Geodynamics
Plate tectonics
NATURE > Rocks & Minerals
Crust of the earth
Marges continentales
Cratons
Ge odynamique
Earth Planet > Crust
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Online Access: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/bookseries/04190254/12
Summary: Developments in Geotectonics, 12: Sedimentary Basins of Continental Margins and Cratons focuses on the formation, movements, characteristics, and evolution of sedimentary basins of continental margins and cratons. The selection first offers information on mechanisms of basin subsidence and rheology of the lithosphere. Discussions focus on hypotheses of basin subsidence mechanism, testing the hypotheses, elastic properties and flexural rigidity of the lithosphere, and rheology of young continental margins. The text then elaborates on flexure of the lithosphere and continental margin basins an
Item Description: "Reprinted from Tectonophysics, v. 36."
Carrier Form: 1 online resource ([3], 314 pages) : illustrations, maps.
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN: 9781483257259
1483257258
Index Number: QE511
CLC: P5
Contents: Front Cover; Sedimentary Basins of Continental Margins and Cratons; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Chapter 1. MECHANISMS OF BASIN SUBSIDENCE -- AN INTRODUCTORY REVIEW; INTRODUCTION; HYPOTHESES OF BASIN SUBSIDENCE MECHANISM; TESTING THE HYPOTHESES; ACKNOWLEDGEMENT; REFERENCES; Chapter 2. RHEOLOGY OF THE LITHOSPHERE -- EXPERIMENTAL INDICATIONS; ABSTRACT; INTRODUCTION; STRUCTURE, COMPOSITION AND TEMPERATURE OF THE LITHOSPHERE; ELASTIC PROPERTIES AND FLEXURAL RIGIDITY OF THE LITHOSPHERE; 'VISCOUS' PROPERTIES OF THE LITHOSPHERE; CHOICE OF CREEP PARAMETERS; MODELS OF LITHOSPHERE RHEOLOGY.
RHEOLOGY OF YOUNG CONTINENTAL MARGINSACKNOWLEDGMENTS; REFERENCES; Chapter 3. FLEXURE OF THE LITHOSPHERE AND CONTINENTAL MARGIN BASINS; ABSTRACT; INTRODUCTION; SEDIMENT LOADING AT A CONTINENTAL MARGIN; 25 M.Y. GULF OF LION MARGIN; DISCUSSION; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; REFERENCES; Chapter 4. PLATFORM SUBSIDENCE MECHANISMS AND ""EUSTATIC"" SEA-LEVEL CHANGES; ABSTRACT; INTRODUCTION; CALCULATION OF EUSTATIC EFFECTS; EUSTATIC CHANGE AMPLITUDE; CONCLUSIONS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; REFERENCES; Chapter 5. THERMAL AND MECHANICAL EVOLUTION OF THE MICHIGAN BASIN; ABSTRACT; INTRODUCTION; RHEOLOGICAL CONSIDERATIONS.
AXISYMMETRIC BENDING OF A LITHOSPHERIC PLATEGRAVITY; THERMAL EVOLUTION OF THE BASIN; BASIN FORMATION MODEL; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; REFERENCES; Chapter 6. FORMATION OF SEDIMENTARY BASINS OF GRABEN TYPE BY EXTENSION OF THE CONTINENTAL CRUST; ABSTRACT; INTRODUCTION; OUTLINE OF PROPOSED MECHANISM; PREDICTED WIDTH OF THE GRABEN; ENERGY BUDGET OF WEDGE SUBSIDENCE MECHANISM; DISCUSSION; REFERENCES; Chapter 7. MAJOR SYNCHRONOUS EVENTS IN CONTINENTAL SHELVES; ABSTRACT; INTRODUCTION; INCEPTION OF SHELF DEVELOPMENT (PERMIAN); TAPHROGENIC SUBSIDENCE (TRIASSIC TO EARLY CRETACEOUS).
THE MID-CRETACEOUS CHANGE (APTIAN/ALBIAN)INTER CRATONIC BASIN AL SUBSIDENCE (LATE CRETACEOUS AND TERTIARY); SUMMARY; REFERENCES; Chapter 8. DEVELOPMENT OF GRABEN ASSOCIATED WITH THE INITIAL RUPTURES OF THE ATLANTIC OCEAN; ABSTRACT; INTRODUCTION; CENTRAL ATLANTIC GRABEN; SOUTH ATLANTIC GRABEN; GRABEN OF THE BENUE TROUGH COMPLEX; GRABEN OF THE GULF OF GUINEA AND THE NORTH COAST OF BRAZIL; GRABEN BETWEEN IBERIA, ARMORICA AND THE GRAND BANKS; LABRADOR SEA AND BAFFIN BAY GRABEN; GRABEN OF NORTHWESTERN EUROPE; GRABEN OF THE NORWEGIAN-GREENLAND SEA; ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT OF MARGINAL GRABEN.
CONCLUSIONSREFERENCES; Chapter 9. SEDIMENTARY BASINS OF THE ATLANTIC MARGIN OF NORTH AMERICA; ABSTRACT; INTRODUCTION; MECHANICS OF BASIN FORMATION; EVOLUTION OF U.S. ATLANTIC MARGIN BASINS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; REFERENCES; Chapter 10. GEODYNAMIC SIGNIFICANCE OF SPASMODIC, CRETACEOUS, RAPID SUBSIDENCE RATES, CONTINENTAL SHELF, U.S.A.; ABSTRACT; INTRODUCTION; NEW RESULTS; POSSIBLE SOURCES OF ERROR IN THE DATA BASE; SIGNIFICANCE; ACKNOWLEDGMENT; REFERENCES; Chapter 11. OBSERVATIONS ON THE PROCESSES OF SEDIMENTARY BASIN FORMATION AT THE MARGINS OF SOUTHERN AFRICA; ABSTRACT; INTRODUCTION.

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