LEADER 03325nam 2200721 450 001 9910813207003321 005 20230617040844.0 010 $a0-19-756214-0 010 $a1-280-53295-5 010 $a1-4237-2050-4 010 $a0-19-534733-1 010 $a1-60256-919-3 035 $a(CKB)1000000000245547 035 $a(EBL)279659 035 $a(OCoLC)559935269 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000129948 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11131681 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000129948 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10080181 035 $a(PQKB)10674597 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4703243 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC279659 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0002341466 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4703243 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11273822 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL53295 035 $a(OCoLC)61341472 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000245547 100 $a20161013h20042004 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aContinents and supercontinents /$fJohn J.W. Rogers and M. Santosh 210 1$aOxford, [England] :$cOxford University Press,$d2004. 210 4$dİ2004 215 $a1 online resource (298 p.) 225 1 $aOxford scholarship online 300 $aPreviously issued in print: 2004. 311 $a0-19-516589-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and indexes. 327 $aContents; 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 Pangea 327 $a11. 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 Index 330 8 $aContinents and Supercontinents surveys the origin of continents and the accretion and breakup of supercontinents through earth history. It also shows how these processes affected the composition of seawater, climate, and the evolution of life. 410 0$aOxford scholarship online. 606 $aContinents 606 $aContinental drift 606 $aPlate tectonics 607 $aEarth (Planet)$xCrust 615 0$aContinents. 615 0$aContinental drift. 615 0$aPlate tectonics. 676 $a551.1/36 700 $aRogers$b John J. W$g(John James William),$f1930-2015,$01709574 702 $aSantosh$b M. 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910813207003321 996 $aContinents and supercontinents$94099413 997 $aUNINA