Screen LibraryProcesses of continental rifting : selected papers from the Lunar and Planetary Institute Topical Conference on the Processes of Planetary Rifting, held in St. Helena, California, U.S.A., December 3-5, 1981 /
Selected papers from the Lunar and Planetary Institute Topical Conference, St. Helena, CA, USA, 3-5 Dec. 1981.
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Elsevier,
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| Publisher Address: | Amsterdam ; New York : |
| Publication Dates: | 1983. |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Series: |
Developments in geotectonics ;
19 |
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| Online Access: |
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/bookseries/04190254/19 |
| Summary: |
Selected papers from the Lunar and Planetary Institute Topical Conference, St. Helena, CA, USA, 3-5 Dec. 1981. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (xii, 680 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781483289823 1483289826 |
| Index Number: | QE606 |
| CLC: | P542 |
| Contents: | Mechanism of graben formation -- the wedge subsidence hypothesis / M.H.P. Bott and D.P. Mithen -- Rifts and swells : geophysical constraints on causality / S.T. Crough -- Mechanisms of active and passive rifting / D.L. Turcotte and S.H. Emerman -- Mechanisms of uplift preceding rifting / J.-C. Mareschal -- Convective thinning of the lithosphere : a mechanism for rifting and mid-plate volcanism on Earth, Venus and Mars / T. Spohn and G. Schubert -- Mechanical aspects of continental rifting / H.J. Neugebauer -- Submarine rifting at mid-ocean ridges / G.T. Jarvis -- Hotspot tracks and the early rifting of the Atlantic / W.J. Morgan -- Mechanism of subsidence of ancient cratonic rift basins / R.F. DeRito, F.A. Cozzarelli and D.S. Hodge -- Phenomena of pulsation tectonics related to the breakup of the eastern North America continental margin / R.E. Sheridan -- Gravity study of the Central African Rift system : a model of continental disruption. 1, The Ngaoundere and Abu Gabra rifts / S.E. Browne and J.D. Fairhead -- Gravity study of the Central African Rift system : a model of continental disruption. 2, The Darfur domal uplift and associated Cainozoic volcanism / P.M. Bermingham, J.D. Fairhead and G.W. Stuart -- Baikal rift : active or passive? -- comparison of the Baikal and Kenya rift zones / N.A. Logatchev, V.A. Zorin and V.A. Rogozhina -- Processes of planetary rifting as seen in the rifting and break up of Africa / R.W. Girdler -- The distribution and implications of heat flow from the Gregory Rift in Kenya / K. Crane and S. O'Connell -- Constraints on rift thermal processes from heat flow and uplift / P. Morgan -- Magnetotelluric results opposing magma origin of crustal conductors in the Rio Grande rift / G.R. Jiracek, E.P. Gustafson and P.S. Mitchell -- Crustal structure of the northern Mississippi embayment and a comparison with other continental rift zones / W.D. Mooney [and others] -- The role of seismic refraction data for studies of the origin and evolution of continental rifts / K.H. Olsen -- Crustal structure of rifted continental margins : geological constraints from the Proterozoic rocks of the Canadian shield / R.M. Easton -- The role of rifting in the tectonic development of the midcontinent, U.S.A. / G.R. Keller [and others] -- Geologic and geochemical evidence for the nature and development of the Middle Proterozoic (Keweenawan) midcontinent rift of North America / J.C. Green -- Timing and chemistry of igneous events associated with the southern Oklahoma aulacogen / M.C. Gilbert -- Origin of the Oslo graben in relation to the Hercynian-Alleghenian orogeny and lithospheric rifting in the North Atlantic / M.J. Russell and D.K. Smythe -- Active versus passive continental rifting : evidence from the West African rift system / J.G. Fitton -- Tectonic and geologic evolution of the Espan ola basin, Rio Grande rift : structure, rate of extension, and relation to the state of stress in the western United States / M.P. Golombek, G.E. McGill and L. Brown -- The Morton-Black hypothesis for the thinning of continental crust -- revisited in western Afar / P. Mohr -- Continental rift jumps / C. Wood -- Surface deformation in volcanic rift zones / D.D. Pollard [and others] -- The chemical and thermal evolution of rifts / D.K. Bailey -- Major stages of rifting evolution in the earth's history / E.E. Milanovsky -- Continental rifting and porphyry-molybdenum occurrences in the Oslo region, Norway -- H.K. Scho nwandt and J.S. Petersen -- Accumulation of fossil fuels and metallic minerals in active and ancient rift lakes / E.I. Robbins -- Geothermal resources of rifts : a comparison of the Rio Grande rift and the Salton trough / C.A. Swanberg. |