Plate Tectonics: Continental Drift and Mountain Building

Plate Tectonics: Continental Drift and Mountain Building

Wolfgang Frisch, Martin Meschede, Ronald C. Blakey (auth.)

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How are mountains formed? Why are there old and young mountains? Why do the shapes of South America and Africa fit so well together? Why is the Pacific surrounded by a ring of volcanoes and earthquake-prone areas while the edges of the Atlantic are relatively peaceful?Frisch and Meschede and Blakey answer all these questions and more through the presentation and explanation of the geodynamic processes upon which the theory of continental drift is based and which have led to the concept of plate tectonics.

Categories:
Earth Sciences – Geology

Year:
2011

Edition:
1

Publisher:
Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg

Language:
english

Pages:
212 / 217

ISBN 10:
3540765034

ISBN 13:
9783540765035

File:
PDF, 119.20 MB