1st Edition

Crustal Evolution and Orogeny

Edited By S.P.H. Sychanthavong Copyright 1990
344 Pages
by CRC Press

344 Pages
by CRC Press

The processes of crustal evolution and orogeny have attracted the earth scientist since the beginning of the last century. Crustal evolution deals with the development of the Earth’s crust since the primeval stage of the planet’s formation. Orogeny represents the period of mountain-building, whereas the orogenesis comprises the processes controlling the development of mountain belts. This text... Read more
Introduction Chapter 1: Speculations Concerning Precambrian Terrestrial Plate Tectonics Chapter 2: A Plate Tectonic for the Late Archaean Pongola Supergroup in Southeastern Africa Chapter 3: Precambrian Plate Tectonic s in the Eastern Indian Shield Chapter 4: Destructive Plate Margin in Tectonics in the Evolution of the Delhi Precambrian Fold Belt and Base Metal Deposit’s, Western Chapter 5: Development of Ideas Pertaining to the Structural Evolution of the Sierra Nevada, California Chapter 6: Tectonics and Geochemical Change Chapter 7: The Penuck-Jutulstaraumen Through System , Western Dronning Maud Land, Antarctica Chapter 8: Metamorphic Belts in the Indus-Kohistan Suture Zone and It’s Surroundings: Evolution in Space and Time Chapter 9: A Tectonic Model for the Early Proterozoic Aravalli (Supergroup) Rocks from North of Udaipur Chapter 10: Deformation Structures in the Rajpura Dariba Area, Rajasthan, Western India and Their Significance Chapter 11 Imbrication of Main Central Thrust and It’s Tectonic Implication in the Central Sector of the Himalaya Chapter 12 Experimental Structure induced by Rheological Deformation Folding.

Biography

S.P.H. Sychanthavong, Department of Geology, Faculty of Science, M.S. University of Baroda, India.