Paleozoic Mesozoic Geology Of South Island New Zealand Subduction Related Processes Adjacent To Se Gondwana

Author : A.H.F. Robertson
Publisher : Geological Society of London
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2019-05-09
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781786204301

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Paleozoic–Mesozoic Geology of South Island, New Zealand Subduction-related Processes Adjacent to SE Gondwana by A.H.F. Robertson Pdf

This volume presents a set of research papers that provide new data and interpretations of the Permian–Triassic terranes of SE Gondwana, now exposed in South Island, New Zealand. Following an introduction for general readers, a historical summary and a review of biostratigraphy, the individual papers primarily focus on the Permian magmatic arc of the Brook Street Terrane, the classic Permian Dun Mountain ophiolite and the Permian–Triassic Maitai Group sedimentary succession. The new results emphasize the role of subduction and terrane displacement adjacent to the Permo-Triassic Gondwana margin, and present fundamental insights into three crustal processes: subduction initiation, supra-subduction zone oceanic crust genesis and forearc basin evolution. The volume concludes with a wide-ranging summary and synthesis of the regional Cambrian to Early Cretaceous tectonostratigraphy of New Zealand’s South Island in relation to the wider areas of Zealandia, East Australia and West Antarctica. The volume will interest geoscientists, including stratigraphers, sedimentologists, palaeontologists, igneous petrologists, geochemists, geochronologists and economic geologists, and is aimed at professional geologists and advanced students of geology.

Author : Malte C. Ebach,Bernard Michaux
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 67 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030517731

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Biotectonics by Malte C. Ebach,Bernard Michaux Pdf

Tectonic plates are constantly moving, either crashing into one another creating a mosaic of mountains and shallow seas, or tearing apart and isolating large swathes of land. In both cases plate tectonics separates populations leading to the evolution of biota. Tectonics is also responsible for the destruction life, for instance when large coral reefs or shallow seas are compressed to form mountain peaks. Could recent research into these processes provide enough evidence to show that tectonics may be the ultimate driver of life on Earth? Our book delves into the current research in tectonics, particularly neotectonics, and its impact on rapid changes on biogeographical classification, also known as bioregionalisation. We also introduce a new term biotectonics that studies the impact of tectonics on biogeoregionalisation. The question we ask is how tectonics directly influences the distribution of biota in four case studies: the Mesozic and early Palaeogene Australides, which spans the Proto-Pacific coast of the South America, Antaractica and Australiasia; and the Neogene of Australia. To conclude we examine the role of neotectonics on tranistion zones and the Amazon Basin and make a case for biotectonic extinction.

Author : Alan Vaughan,Alan P. M. Vaughan,Philip T. Leat,Robert J. Pankhurst
Publisher : Geological Society of London
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Science
ISBN : 1862391793

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Terrane Processes at the Margins of Gondwana by Alan Vaughan,Alan P. M. Vaughan,Philip T. Leat,Robert J. Pankhurst Pdf

The Australide orogen, the southern hemisphere Neoproterozoic to Mesozoic terrane accretionary orogen that forms the palaeo-Pacific margin of Gondwana, is one of the largest and longest-lived orogens on Earth. This book brings together a series of reviews and multidisciplinary research papers that comprehensively cover the Australides from the Tasman orogen of eastern Australia to the Neoproterozoic and Palaeozoic orogens of South America, taking in New Zealand and Antarctica along the way. It deals with the evolution of the southern Gondwana margin, as it grew during a series of terrane accretion episodes from the late Proterozoic through to final fragmentation in mid-Cretaceous times. Global perspectives are given by comparison with the Palaeozoic northern Gondwana margin and documentation of world-wide terrane accretion episodes in the Late Triassic-Early Jurassic and mid-Cretaceous. The Tasmanides of eastern Australia, and the terrane histories of New Zealand and southern South America are given comprehensive up-to-date reviews.

Author : J.L. Smellie,K.S. Panter,A. Geyer
Publisher : Geological Society of London
Page : 802 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06-09
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781786205360

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Volcanism in Antarctica: 200 Million Years of Subduction, Rifting and Continental Break-up by J.L. Smellie,K.S. Panter,A. Geyer Pdf

This memoir is the first to review all of Antarctica’s volcanism between 200 million years ago and the Present. The region is still volcanically active. The volume is an amalgamation of in-depth syntheses, which are presented within distinctly different tectonic settings. Each is described in terms of (1) the volcanology and eruptive palaeoenvironments; (2) petrology and origin of magma; and (3) active volcanism, including tephrochronology. Important volcanic episodes include: astonishingly voluminous mafic and felsic volcanic deposits associated with the Jurassic break-up of Gondwana; the construction and progressive demise of a major Jurassic to Present continental arc, including back-arc alkaline basalts and volcanism in a young ensialic marginal basin; Miocene to Pleistocene mafic volcanism associated with post-subduction slab-window formation; numerous Neogene alkaline volcanoes, including the massive Erebus volcano and its persistent phonolitic lava lake, that are widely distributed within and adjacent to one of the world’s major zones of lithospheric extension (the West Antarctic Rift System); and very young ultrapotassic volcanism erupted subglacially and forming a world-wide type example (Gaussberg).

Author : David Okaya,Tim Stern,Fred Davey
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 933 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781118671771

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A Continental Plate Boundary by David Okaya,Tim Stern,Fred Davey Pdf

Published by the American Geophysical Union as part of the Geophysical Monograph Series, Volume 175. A Continental Plate Boundary offers in one place the most comprehensive, up-to-date knowledge for researchers and students to learn about the tectonics and plate dynamics of the Pacific-Australian continental plate boundary in South Island and about the application of modern geological and geophysical methods. It examines what happens when convergence and translation occur at a plate boundary by Describing the geological and geophysical signature of a continental transform fault; Identifying the diverse vertical and lateral patterns of deformation at the plate boundary; Assessing an apparent seismicity gap on the plate boundary fault and fast-moving plate motions; Comparing this plate boundary to other global convergent continental strike-slip plate boundaries; Documenting the utility of the double-sided, onshore-offshore seismic method for exploration of a narrow continental island; and Providing additional papers presenting previously unpublished results. This volume will prove invaluable for seismologists, tectonophysicists, geodesists and potential-field geophysicists, geologists, geodynamicists, and students of the deformation of tectonic plates.

Author : M.J. Hambrey,P.F. Barker,P.J. Barrett,V. Bowman,B. Davies,J.L. Smellie,M. Tranter
Publisher : Geological Society of London
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2013-12-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781862393639

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Antarctic Palaeoenvironments and Earth-Surface Processes by M.J. Hambrey,P.F. Barker,P.J. Barrett,V. Bowman,B. Davies,J.L. Smellie,M. Tranter Pdf

The volume highlights developments in our understanding of the palaeogeographical, palaeobiological, palaeoclimatic and cryospheric evolution of Antarctica. It focuses on the sedimentary record from the Devonian to the Quaternary Period. It features tectonic evolution and stratigraphy, as well as processes taking place adjacent to, beneath and beyond the ice-sheet margin, including the continental shelf. The contributions in this volume include several invited review papers, as well as original research papers arising from the International Symposium on Antarctic Earth Sciences in Edinburgh, in July 2011. These papers demonstrate a remarkable diversity of Earth science interests in the Antarctic. Following international trends, there is particular emphasis on the Cenozoic Era, reflecting the increasing emphasis on the documentation and understanding of the past record of ice-sheet fluctuations. Furthermore, Antarctic Earth history is providing us with important information about potential future trends, as the impact of global warming is increasingly felt on the continent and its ocean.

Author : U.S. Geological Survey,National Research Council,Polar Research Board
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2008-04-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780309178099

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Antarctica by U.S. Geological Survey,National Research Council,Polar Research Board Pdf

Antarctica is the center from which all surrounding continental bodies separated millions of years ago. Antarctica: A Keystone in a Changing World, reinforces the importance of continual changes in the country's history and the impact of these changes on global systems. The book also places emphasis on deciphering the climate records in ice cores, geologic cores, rock outcrops and those inferred from climate models. New technologies for the coming decades of geoscience data collection are also highlighted. Antarctica: A Keystone in a Changing World is a collection of papers that were presented by keynote speakers at the 10th International Symposium on Antarctic Earth Sciences. It is of interest to policy makers, researchers and scientific institutions.

Author : Graeme Roy Stevens
Publisher : Raupo
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Continental drift
ISBN : UCSD:31822010622538

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New Zealand Adrift by Graeme Roy Stevens Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1152 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Geology
ISBN : UCAL:B4534989

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Bibliography and Index of Geology by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jeffrey L. Mauk
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 718 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Geology
ISBN : STANFORD:36105021261552

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PACRIM Congress 1995, Auckland, New Zealand, 19-22 November 1995 by Jeffrey L. Mauk Pdf

Author : Dieter K. Fütterer,Detlef Damaske,Georg Kleinschmidt,Hubert Miller,Franz Tessensohn
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2006-05-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783540329343

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Antarctica by Dieter K. Fütterer,Detlef Damaske,Georg Kleinschmidt,Hubert Miller,Franz Tessensohn Pdf

Sixty articles arranged in eight thematic sections refer to most recent geological and geophysical results of Antarctic research. The Precambrian of the East Antarctic shield and its geological history is considered as well as sub-ice topography, geophysics and stratigraphy, sedimentology and geophysics of the surrounding Southern Ocean. Particular emphasis is given to the connection of the Antarctic and the surrounding continents when forming part of Gondwana.

Author : Michael Heads
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 507 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781107041028

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Biogeography of Australasia by Michael Heads Pdf

A fascinating analysis of the main patterns of distribution and evolution of the Australasian biota.

Author : P. R. King,Glenn P. Thrasher
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105020352972

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Cretaceous-Cenozoic Geology and Petroleum Systems of the Taranaki Basin, New Zealand by P. R. King,Glenn P. Thrasher Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1730 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Petroleum
ISBN : STANFORD:36105007711661

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Petroleum Abstracts by Anonim Pdf

Author : Mark Cloos
Publisher : Geological Society of America
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780813724195

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Convergent Margin Terranes and Associated Regions by Mark Cloos Pdf