Plate Tectonics : Continental Drift and Mountain Building
- Author/Creator:
- Frisch, Wolfgang, 1943- author
- Publication/Creation:
- Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2011
- Resource Type:
- Book
- Edition:
- 1st ed. 2011.
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Additional/Related Title Information
- Full Title:
- Plate Tectonics : Continental Drift and Mountain Building / by Wolfgang Frisch, Martin Meschede, Ronald C. Blakey
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- Additional Author/Creators:
- Meschede, Martin, author
Blakey, Ronald C., 1945-, author
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Subjects/Genre
- Genre:
- Textbooks
Electronic books - Subjects:
- Geology
Geology, Structural
Planetary science
Description/Summary
- Summary:
- How are mountains formed? Why are there old and young mountains? Why do the shapes of South America and Africa fit so well together? Why is the Pacific surrounded by a ring of volcanoes and earthquake-prone areas while the edges of the Atlantic are relatively peaceful? Frisch and Meschede and Blakey answer all these questions and more through the presentation and explanation of the geodynamic processes upon which the theory of continental drift is based and which have led to the concept of plate tectonics.
- Language:
- English
- Physical Type/Description:
- VIII, 212 pages : online resource
- Local Note:
- Open access book.
Additional Identifiers
- Catalog ID (MMSID):
- 9937206357902486
- ISBN:
- 9783540765042
- Other Identifiers:
- doi: 10.1007/978-3-540-76504-2
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