1st Edition
Major Impacts and Plate Tectonics A Model for the Phanerzoic Evolution of the Earth's Lithosphere
By Neville Price
Copyright 2001
368 Pages
by
CRC Press
368 Pages
by
CRC Press
368 Pages
by
CRC Press
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Neville Price presents a major breakthrough in our understanding of the subject of plate tectonics in this new book. In this ambitious look at the importance of impacts of objects from space on the earth, he challenges the fundamentals of the theory on which geoscience has rested for the past 25 years. In the latter half of the 20th century, earth-scientists gradually became aware of the scale... Read more
1. Earth and the Solar System 2. Characteristics, Stress in and Strength of the Lithosphere 3. Assessment of Mechanisms That Cause Plate Movement 4. Hot Spots, Plumes and Lithospheric Thinning, Large Igneous Provinces and the Splitting of Continents 5. Geometries and Mechanisms of Impact Structures 6. Impact and Plate Motion, the Development of Flood and Plateau Basalts Regional Track
ks, Impact Control and Future Risks
ks, Impact Control and Future Risks
Biography
Price, Neville
