Earth History and Palaeogeography
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Earth History and Palaeogeography

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Earth History and Palaeogeography

About this book

Using full-colour palaeogeographical maps from the Cambrian to the present, this interdisciplinary volume explains how plate motions and surface volcanism are linked to processes in the Earth's mantle, and to climate change and the evolution of the Earth's biota. These new and very detailed maps provide a complete and integrated Phanerozoic story of palaeogeography. They illustrate the development of all the major mountain-building orogenies. Old lands, seas, ice caps, volcanic regions, reefs, and coal beds are highlighted on the maps, as well as faunal and floral provinces. Many other original diagrams show sections from the Earth's core, through the mantle, and up to the lithosphere, and how Large Igneous Provinces are generated, helping to understand how plates have appeared, moved, and vanished through time. Supplementary resources are available online, making this an invaluable reference for researchers, graduate students, professional geoscientists and anyone interested in the geological history of the Earth.

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Yes, you can access Earth History and Palaeogeography by Trond H. Torsvik,L. Robin M. Cocks in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Physical Sciences & Geology & Earth Sciences. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title
  3. Title page
  4. Copyright information
  5. Dedication
  6. Table of contents
  7. Preface
  8. Acknowledgements
  9. 1 Introduction
  10. 2 Methods for Locating Old Continents and Terranes
  11. 3 Tectonic Units of the Earth
  12. 4 Earth’s Origins and the Precambrian
  13. 5 Cambrian
  14. 6 Ordovician
  15. 7 Silurian
  16. 8 Devonian
  17. 9 Carboniferous
  18. 10 Permian
  19. 11 Triassic
  20. 12 Jurassic
  21. 13 Cretaceous
  22. 14 Paleogene
  23. 15 Neogene and Quaternary
  24. 16 Climates Past and Present
  25. Endnote
  26. Appendix 1
  27. Appendix 2
  28. Appendix 3
  29. References
  30. Index
  31. Endpaper