Author | : Gillian R. Foulger |
Publisher | : Geological Society of America |
Total Pages | : 898 |
Release | : 2005-01-01 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0813723884 |
Author | : Gillian R. Foulger |
Publisher | : Geological Society of America |
Total Pages | : 898 |
Release | : 2005-01-01 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0813723884 |
Author | : Gillian R. Foulger |
Publisher | : Geological Society of America |
Total Pages | : 1012 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0813724309 |
Presents a collection of papers discussing various hypotheses and models of planetary plumes.
Author | : Gillian R. Foulger |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 445 |
Release | : 2011-06-13 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1444348329 |
Since the advent of the mantle plume hypothesis in 1971, scientists have been faced with the problem that its predictions are not confirmed by observation. For thirty years, the usual reaction has been to adapt the hypothesis in numerous ways. As a result, the multitude of current plume variants now amounts to an unfalsifiable hypothesis. In the early 21st century demand became relentless for a theory that can explain melting anomalies in a way that fits the observations naturally and is forward-predictive. From this the Plate hypothesis emerged–the exact inverse of the Plume hypothesis. The Plate hypothesis attributes melting anomalies to shallow effects directly related to plate tectonics. It rejects the hypothesis that surface volcanism is driven by convection in the deep mantle. Earth Science is currently in the midst of the kind of paradigm-challenging debate that occurs only rarely in any field. This volume comprises its first handbook. It reviews the Plate and Plume hypotheses, including a clear statement of the former. Thereafter it follows an observational approach, drawing widely from many volcanic regions in chapters on vertical motions of Earth's crust, magma volumes, time-progressions of volcanism, seismic imaging, mantle temperature and geochemistry. This text: Deals with a paradigm shift in Earth Science - some say the most important since plate tectonics Is analogous to Wegener's The Origin of Continents and Oceans Is written to be accessible to scientists and students from all specialities This book is indispensable to Earth scientists from all specialties who are interested in this new subject. It is suitable as a reference work for those teaching relevant classes, and an ideal text for advanced undergraduates and graduate students studying plate tectonics and related topics. Visit Gillian's own website at http://www.mantleplumes.org
Author | : Seth Stein |
Publisher | : American Geophysical Union |
Total Pages | : 444 |
Release | : 2002-01-21 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : |
This volume collects some recent studies on the motions, mechanics, and earthquakes that take place within plate boundary zones. Many of the studies reflect advances made possible by the development of space geodetic techniques. Among the topics of the 21 papers are tectonic processes in the Eurasian-African plate boundary zone, the structure of the Dead Sea basin, the January 2001 Bhuj earthquake in India, geological investigations of the Kamchatka region in Russia, and crustal shortening and extension in the central Andes. There is no index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.
Author | : David A. Yuen |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 567 |
Release | : 2007-06-29 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1402057490 |
This abundantly illustrated book provides a concise overview of our understanding of the entire mantle, its evolution since early differentiation and the consequences of superplumes for earth surface processes. The book’s balanced authorship has produced a state-of-the-science report on the emerging concept of superplumes. This presents a new concept to explain catastrophic events on Earth through geologic time.
Author | : John P. Rafferty Associate Editor, Earth Sciences |
Publisher | : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc |
Total Pages | : 314 |
Release | : 2010-08-15 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1615301062 |
Presents an introduction to volcanoes and earthquakes, explaining how the movement of the Earth's interior plates cause their formation and describing the volcanoes which currently exist around the world as well as some of the famous earthquakes of the nineteenth through twenty-first cenuturies.
Author | : Don L. Anderson |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 2007-04-12 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1139462083 |
Theory of the Earth is an interdisciplinary advanced textbook on the origin, composition, and evolution of the Earth's interior: geophysics, geochemistry, dynamics, convection, mineralogy, volcanism, energetics and thermal history. This is the only book on the whole landscape of deep Earth processes which ties together all the strands of the subdisciplines. It is a complete update of Anderson's Theory of the Earth (1989). It includes many new sections and dozens of new figures and tables. As with the original book, this new edition will prove to be a stimulating textbook on advanced courses in geophysics, geochemistry, and planetary science, and supplementary textbook on a wide range of other advanced Earth science courses. It will also be an essential reference and resource for all researchers in the solid Earth sciences.
Author | : R.W. Wilson |
Publisher | : Geological Society of London |
Total Pages | : 488 |
Release | : 2019-11-11 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1786203839 |
Fifty years ago, Tuzo Wilson published his paper asking `Did the Atlantic close and then re-open?’. This led to the `Wilson Cycle’ concept in which the repeated opening and closing of ocean basins along old orogenic belts is a key process in the assembly and breakup of supercontinents. The Wilson Cycle underlies much of what we know about the geological evolution of the Earth and its lithosphere, and will no doubt continue to be developed as we gain more understanding of the physical processes that control mantle convection, plate tectonics, and as more data become available from currently less accessible regions. This volume includes both thematic and review papers covering various aspects of the Wilson Cycle concept. Thematic sections include: (1) the Classic Wilson v. Supercontinent Cycles, (2) Mantle Dynamics in the Wilson Cycle, (3) Tectonic Inheritance in the Lithosphere, (4) Revisiting Tuzo’s question on the Atlantic, (5) Opening and Closing of Oceans, and (6) Cratonic Basins and their place in the Wilson Cycle.
Author | : James W. Sears |
Publisher | : Geological Society of America |
Total Pages | : 440 |
Release | : 2007-01-01 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0813724333 |
The 19 original papers on the tectonic evolution of mountain systems were collected to mark the 50th anniversary of Price's description of the Canadian Cordillera. A sampling of topics turns up the driving mechanism and three-dimensional circulation of plate tectonics, the Belt-Purcell Basic as the keystone of the Rocky Mountain fold-and-thrust belt in the US and Canada, Silurian-Devonian orogenic events in the central Appalachians and the crystalline southern Appalachians, and defining the eastern boundary of the North Asian craton from structural and subsidence history studies of the Verkhoyansk fold-and-thrust belt. A fold-out sheet of color maps and diagrams is tucked into a pocket inside the back cover.