03325nam 2200721 450 991078367770332120230617040844.00-19-756214-01-280-53295-51-4237-2050-40-19-534733-11-60256-919-3(CKB)1000000000245547(EBL)279659(OCoLC)559935269(SSID)ssj0000129948(PQKBManifestationID)11131681(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000129948(PQKBWorkID)10080181(PQKB)10674597(MiAaPQ)EBC4703243(MiAaPQ)EBC279659(StDuBDS)EDZ0002341466(Au-PeEL)EBL4703243(CaPaEBR)ebr11273822(CaONFJC)MIL53295(OCoLC)61341472(EXLCZ)99100000000024554720161013h20042004 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrContinents and supercontinents /John J.W. Rogers and M. SantoshOxford, [England] :Oxford University Press,2004.©20041 online resource (298 p.)Oxford scholarship onlinePreviously issued in print: 2004.0-19-516589-6 Includes bibliographical references and indexes.Contents; 1. Continental Drift-The Road to Plate Tectonics; 2. Plate Tectonics Now and in the Past; 3. Creation, Destruction, and Changes in Volume of Continental Crust Through Time; 4. Growth of Cratons and their Post-Stabilization Histories; 5. Assembly of Continents and Establishment of Lower Crust and Upper Mantle; 6. Assembly and Dispersal of Supercontinents; 7. Supercontinents Older than Gondwana; 8. Gondwana and Pangea; 9. Rifting of Pangea and Formation of Present Ocean Basins; 10. History of Continents after Rifting from Pangea11. Effects of Continents and Supercontinents on Climate12. Effects of Continents and Supercontinents on Organic Evolution; Appendix A. Seismic Methods; Appendix B. Heat Flow and Thermal Gradients; Appendix C. Paleomagnetism; Appendix D. Isotopic Systems; Appendix E. Cratons; Appendix F. Anorogenic Magmatic Suites; Appendix G. Orogenic Belts of Grenville Age; Appendix H. Orogenic Belts of 2.1-1.3-Ga Age; Appendix I. Orogenic Belts of Pan-African-Brasiliano Age; References; Author Index; Subject IndexContinents and Supercontinents surveys the origin of continents and the accretion and breakup of supercontinents through earth history. It also shows how these processes affected the composition of seawater, climate, and the evolution of life.Oxford scholarship online.ContinentsContinental driftPlate tectonicsEarth (Planet)CrustContinents.Continental drift.Plate tectonics.551.1/36Rogers John J. W(John James William),1930-2015,1580091Santosh M.MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910783677703321Continents and supercontinents3860721UNINA