The crust of the Pacific Basin Based on papers in two symposia: (1) Volcanism and plutonism in relation to types of crustal deformation [and] (2) The earth's crust in the Pacific Basin. Presented at the Tenth Pacific Science Congress, Honolulu, Hawaii, August 21-September 6, 1961.

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Corporate Authors: Pacific Science Congress Honolulu
Group Author: Macdonald, Gordon A. Gordon Andrew, 1911-1978; Kuno, Hisashi, 1910-1969
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Literature type: Electronic eBook
Language: English
Series: American Geophysical Union. Geophysical monograph no. 6
National Research Council (U.S.). Publication 1035
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Online Access: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1029/GM006
Carrier Form: 1 online resource (ix, 195 pages) : maps (some color) charts, diagrams, profiles, tables.
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN: 9781118669310 (electronic bk.)
1118669312 (electronic bk.)
Index Number: QE500
CLC: P561.81
Contents: Island arcs in the development of the earth's structure (especially in the region of Japan and the Sea of Okhotsk) / V.V. Beloussov and E.M. Ruditch -- Seismic wave velocities in the New Guinea-Solomon Islands region / J.A. Brooks -- Ocean-basin evolution by sea-floor spreading / Robert S. Dietz -- Crustal structure and volcanism in Hawaii / J.P. Eaton -- Surface-wave studies of the Pacific crust and mantle / Maurice Ewing, James Brune, and John Kuo -- On the relationship between geotectonic and geophysical phenomena of the Kuril-Kamtchatka folding zone at the jnction zone of the Asiatic con