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Author : Donald R. Bowes,Bernard E. Leake
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Earth
ISBN : OCLC:165031148
Author : Donald R. Bowes,Bernard E. Leake
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Science
ISBN : UOM:39015005848182
Author : D. R. Bowes,B. E. Leake
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1980-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0471277576
Author : Neil S. Meadows
Publisher : Geological Society of London
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1897799845
This text provides a snap-shot of current understanding on the petroleum geology of the East Irish Sea and adjacent areas.
Author : Wes Gibbons,Anthony Leonard Harris,Geological Society of London
Publisher : Geological Society of London
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Science
ISBN : 189779911X
Author : P. F. Balance
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2009-04-08
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781444303742
An edited collection of articles on oblique-slip mobile zone sedimentation Sedimentation in Oblique?Slip Mobile Zones is a collection of 14 articles on the topic, edited by Peter F. Ballance Harold G. Reading. The topic is introduced with an essay on the characteristics and identification of strike-slip fault systems. Further chapters cover examples from California, Scotland, Norway, New Zealand, Northern Spain, Southwest Turkey, and more. Offshore sedimentary basins are also covered.
Author : C. E. Keen
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781483275451
Developments in Geotectonics, 15: Crustal Properties across Passive Margins covers the papers presented at the symposium ""Crustal Properties across Passive Margins"", held at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia on June 19-23, 1978. The book focuses on theoretical modelling of the rheological properties in the upper mantle beneath oceans and continents and stratigraphic studies of the sedimentary basins. The selection first offers information on seismic refraction study of the continental edge off the Eastern United States and gravity field of the U.S. Atlantic continental margin. Topics include crustal sections, inner and outer quiet zones, alternative models and complications, gravity models, free-air anomaly map, and the ocean-continent transition zone. The text then takes a look at the geologic history of the passive margin off New England and the Canadian Maritime Provinces and geophysical observations bearing upon the origin of the Newfoundland Ridge. The manuscript elaborates on the age and origin of the deepest correlative structures recognized off Canada and Europe and geophysical transects of the Labrador Sea. Discussions focus on magnetics and gravity, stratigraphic control, consequences regarding subduction or rifting, and deep structures of the Grand Banks of Newfoundland. The selection is a dependable reference for readers interested in crustal properties across passive margins.
Author : D.J. Fettes,A.L. Harris
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789400946545
The Advanced Science Institute on which this publication is based took the somewhat unusual form of a geological field symposium held during late August 1984. It was designed to demonstrate to experienced earth scientists from the North Atlantic area the full range of geological phenomena encountered in the British Caledonian rocks. The ASl travelled from South Wales to the far northwest of Scotland by the route shown on the map and in doing so examined sedimentary, igneous and metamorphic rocks from Pembrokeshire (Dyfed), Cardigan (Ceridigian), Snowdonia, Anglesey, the English Lake District and the Southern Uplands and Highlands of Scotland. Thus the fifty or so participants in the ASl studied the geological history and major structures of rocks exposed on either side of the supposed Lower Palaeozoic Iapetus Ocean the British sector of which closed to the south of the present Southern Uplands. Wales (1-5) afforded insight into the nature of the late Precambrian basement of England and Wales and the relationship of sedimentary and volcanic cover sequences to this basement. The Ordovician sequence in Wales is a sample of the volcanic rocks typical of a marginal basin, and were examined in Pembrokeshire and Snowdonia. The English Lake District (6) displays rocks from an island arc also of Ordovician age.
Author : J. A. Winchester
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 748 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781461573449
Later Proterozoic Stratigraphy of the Northern Atlantic stimulating and their prompt submission of text and illustrative material has enabled rapid production of Regions aims to produce a concise and up-to-date synthesis of the later Proterozoic geology of those lands the book. Funding for this research has come from many bordering the North Atlantic that were once situated sources, including the Natural Environment Research north of the Iapetus Suture and the Tornquist Line. Council, the British Geological Survey, the Geological Proterozoic rocks deposited between 1150 and 650 Ma Surveys of Greenland and Newfoundland and many (the latter date marked by the Varanger glaciation) are universities. the main subject of the book, although reference is also Many of the chapters use differing and interesting made to deposits laid down at the end of the Proterozoic methods of approach, including structural analysis, in Scandinavia, Newfoundland and Greenland. The sedimentology, whole-rock trace element geochemistry, need for such a comprehensive review has become geophysics, and isotopic age dating. The scope of the increasingly apparent in recent years, because the original research was extended to include formerly introduction of many new methods of resolving pro adjacent areas and, as a result, a number of useful blems in complex metamorphic terrains has unlocked a correlations between these regions can be made. The vast store of new information.
Author : Richard D. Law
Publisher : Geological Society of London
Page : 886 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Geology, Structural
ISBN : 1862393001
The Geological Survey's 1907 Memoir 'The Geological Structure of the North-West Highlands of Scotland' outlined many of the principles of field-based structural and tectonic analysis that have subsequently guided generations of geologists working in other mountain belts, both ancient and modern. These 32 papers celebrate the centenary of the 1907 Memoir by placing the original findings in both historical and modern contexts, and juxtaposing them against present-day studies of deformation processes operating not only in the NW Highlands, but also in other mountain belts.
Author : Alan M. Goodwin
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1996-06-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780080539690
Principles of Precambrian Geologyis an update to the 1991 book, Precambrian Geology: The Dynamic Evolution of the Continental Crust, by the same author. The new edition covers the same topics in a more concise and accessible format and is replete with explanatory figures, tables, and illustrations. The book serves as a modern comprehensive statement on the Earth's Precambrian crust, covering the main aspects of distribution, lithiostratigraphy, age, and petrogenesis of Precambrian rocks by continent within the context of the Earth's evolving continental crust. Principles of Precambrian Geology provides a suitable framework for assessing various Earth dynamic and biospheric hypotheses, including the modern plate tectonic paradigm and the Gaian hypothesis. Despite the concise format, the new edition provides extensive updated references to support the information presented. It is designed to serve the needs of student, teacher, explorationist and general student of the continental crust. Updated to provide more concise accessible information Extensive illustrations, tabulations, and maps Provides a framework for assessing recent hypothesis on Earth dynamics Covers main aspects of distribution, lithostratigraphy, age, and protogenesis of Precambrian rocks
Author : P.E. Schenk
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789400972391
The classical Appalachian, Caledonian, Hercynian, and Mauritanide orogens are now only segments of a once-continuous Paleozoic mountain belt which has been fragmented during Mesozoic-Cenozoic formation of the North Atlantic Ocean. These segments are major parts of the countries surrounding the North Atlantic - most of which are members of NATO. The aim of this NATO conference was to evaluate these fragments in terms of their pre-Mesozoic positions, and to attempt a synthesis of their geologic evolution on an international and orogen-wide scale. Geologists who have studied these scattered remnants have been separated by both geography and discipline. Orogen-wide syntheses have beeen attempted in the past by individuals who are specialists not only in discipline but also in geography; therefore, these attempts have not been satisfactory to everyone. This conference brought together the foremost specialists in different disciplines from each country. They attempted to teach other specialists, not only in their own fields, but in other disciplines, about regional variations and particular problems. The resulting international cross-fertilization, both within and between speciaLties, enriched individual workers and helped to provide a multi-disciplinary overview of the orogen.
Author : Enriqueta Barrera,Claudia C. Johnson
Publisher : Geological Society of America
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 0813723329
Author : Gerhard Voll,Jutta Töpel,David R.M. Pattison,Friedrich Seifert
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 489 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783642761454
With the new global tectonics approach in the Earth Sciences, the quan titative aspects of the dynamics of rock-forming processes came into focus: geologists are no longer satisfied knowing the pressure-tempera ture conditions of the formation of a metamorphic rock or of the emplace ment of a magmatic body, but instead would like to learn the time history of these rocks as well, i. e. , derive the temperature-pressure-time path and relate it to a tectonic process. To achieve this goal, a knowledge of both pressure-temperature-dependent equilibria and the time scales at which these equilibria may be attained are essential. However, the latter kinetic information is much more difficult to retrieve than that on equilibria: whereas equilibria are controlled by state variables, and proper laboratory experiments may be directly applied to equilibrium natural assemblages, kinetics also depends on factors other than state variables, such as grain size, dislocation density, and especially time (rate of heating, duration of annealing, rate of cooling). Extrapolation of kinetic data obtained at high temperatures on laboratory time scales to more realistic lower tempera tures and geological time scales are dangerous because, for example, of possible changes from an intrinsically controlled defect regime to an extrinsic one as temperature is lowered, or from an interface-controlled to a diffusion-controlled reaction mechanism.
Author : A. M. Spencer
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 443 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789400956261
Complete Proceedings of the Symposium organised by the Norwegian Petroleum Society and held at Trondheim, Norway in 1983