Principles Of Precambrian Geology

Author : Alan M. Goodwin
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1996-06-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780080539690

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Principles of Precambrian Geology by Alan M. Goodwin Pdf

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 : Charles Richard Van Hise
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Geology, Stratigraphic
ISBN : HARVARD:32044032909848

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Principles of North American Pre-Cambrian Geology by Charles Richard Van Hise Pdf

Author : Alan M. Goodwin
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 681 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2016-02-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781483288550

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Precambrian Geology by Alan M. Goodwin Pdf

The main goal of this book is to provide a modern comprehensive statement on the Earth's Precambrian crust. It uses geographic and tectonic location, lithostratigraphy, geochronology, and petrogenesis as a basis for considering Precambrian coastal evolution--including the role of plate tectonics. Detailed consideration is given to the endogenic and exogenic processes which formed the continental crust and also to its subsequent secular evolution across Precambrian time**An essential reference volume for every Precambrian geologist.

Author : Charles Richard Van Hise
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:458115794

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Principles of North American Pre-Cambrian Geology... by Charles Richard Van Hise Pdf

Author : Charles Richard van Hise,Leander Miller Hoskins
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1900
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:841655012

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Principles of North American Pre-cambrian Geology by Charles Richard van Hise,Leander Miller Hoskins Pdf

Author : John Suppe
Publisher : Prentice Hall
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Science
ISBN : MINN:31951000542475X

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Principles of Structural Geology by John Suppe Pdf

Author : Charles Richard Van Hise,Leander Miller Hoskins
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Geology, Stratigraphic
ISBN : OCLC:492233110

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Principles of North American Pre-Cambrian Geology by Charles Richard Van Hise,Leander Miller Hoskins Pdf

Author : P.G. Eriksson,Wladyslaw Altermann,D.R. Nelson,W.U. Mueller,O. Catuneanu,Octavian Catuneanu
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 966 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2004-03-04
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780080542591

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The Precambrian Earth by P.G. Eriksson,Wladyslaw Altermann,D.R. Nelson,W.U. Mueller,O. Catuneanu,Octavian Catuneanu Pdf

In this book the editors strive to cover all primary (i.e. non-applied) topics in Precambrian geology in a non-partisan way, by using a large team of international authors to present their datasets and highly divergent viewpoints. The chapters address: celestial origins of Earth and succeeding extraterrestrial impact events; generation of continental crust and the greenstone-granite debate; the interaction of mantle plumes and plate tectonics over Precambrian time; Precambrian volcanism, emphasising komatiite research; evolution and models for Earth's hydrosphere and atmosphere; evolution of life and its influence on Precambrian ocean chemistry and chemical sedimentation; sedimentation through Precambrian time; the application of sequence stratigraphy to the Precambrian rock record. Each topic is introduced and a non-partisan closing commentary provided at the end of each chapter. The final chapter blends the major geological events and rates at which important processes occurred into a synthesis, which postulates a number of "event clusters" in the Precambrian when significant changes occurred in many natural systems and geological environments. Also available in paperback, ISBN: 0-444-51509-7

Author : Gunter Faure
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 614 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1986-09-22
Category : Science
ISBN : UOM:39015040425376

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Principles of Isotope Geology by Gunter Faure Pdf

This wide-ranging text in isotope geology/geoscience allows students to integrate material taught in various courses into a unified picture of the earth sciences. Gives a rational exposition of the principles used in the interpretation of isotopic data and shows how such interpretations apply to the solution of geological problems. Current with references up to 1985, chapters in this edition have been revised, and new chapters on Sm-Nd, Lu-Hf, Re-Os, and K-Ca decay schemes and cosmogenic radionuclides have been added. Data summaries and references have been expanded. Also includes problems for student study and abundant line drawings with explanatory captions.

Author : John Francis Kirkaldy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Blue grenadier
ISBN : CHI:086036194

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General Principles of Geology by John Francis Kirkaldy Pdf

At head of title: Final report to FIRC Project 84/63.

Author : Arthur Holmes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1318 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Geology
ISBN : UCAL:B4331133

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Principles of Physical Geology by Arthur Holmes Pdf

Author : A. Kröner
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 780 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1981-01-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 0080869033

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Precambrian Plate Tectonics by A. Kröner Pdf

Precambrian Plate Tectonics

Author : D.G. Howell
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1994-10-31
Category : Science
ISBN : 041254640X

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Principles of Terrane Analysis by D.G. Howell Pdf

This book introduces the reader to the principles of terrrane analysis, and describes how accretion tectonics relates to classic plate tectonics theory and what this represents in terms of mountain building and continental growth processes. A forensic-like investigation of continental geology is detailed, integrating many different sub-disciplines of the Earth Sciences. The concepts outlined have a practical bent and help to explain the nature and occurrences of petroleum and metallic mineral deposits.

Author : Andrew Miall
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781475742329

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Principles of Sedimentary Basin Analysis by Andrew Miall Pdf

This book is intended as a practical handbook for those engaged in the task of analyzing the paleogeographic evolution of ancient sedimentary basins. The science of stratigraphy and sedimentology is central to such endeavors, but although several excellent textbooks on sedimentology have appeared in recent years little has been written about modern stratigraphic methods. Sedimentology textbooks tend to take a theoretical approach, building from physical and chemical theory and studies of mod ern environments. It is commonly difficult to apply this information to practical problems in ancient rocks, and very little guidance is given on methods of observation, mapping and interpretation. In this book theory is downplayed and the emphasis is on what a geologist can actually see in outcrops, well records, and cores, and what can be ob tained using geophysical techniques. A new approach is taken to stratigraphy, which attempts to explain the genesis of lithostratigraphic units and to de-emphasize the importance of formal description and nam ing. There are also sections explaining principles of facies analysis, basin mapping methods, depositional systems, and the study of basin thermal history, so important to the genesis of fuels and minerals. Lastly, an at tempt is made to tie everything together by considering basins in the con text of plate tectonics and eustatic sea level changes.

Author : Kent C. Condie,Robert Evan Sloan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Historical geology
ISBN : UCSD:31822025902446

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Origin and Evolution of Earth by Kent C. Condie,Robert Evan Sloan Pdf

Examples are the nature of Earth's oldest rocks, the origin of continents, extraterrestrial impact and mass extinctions of organisms, rates of organic evolution, and recent developments on the origin of humans.