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Orogenesis : the making of mountains /
"Orogenesis, the process of mountain building, occurs when two tectonic plates collide--either forcing material upwards to form mountain belts such as the Alps or Himalayas or causing one plate to be subducted below the other, resulting in volcanic mountain chains such as the Andes. Integrating...
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2012.
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| Online Access: | http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1214/2011029389-b.html http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1214/2011029389-d.html http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1214/2011029389-t.html |
Table of Contents:
- Major features of the Earth and plate tectonics
- Driving mechanisms for plates, slab retreat and advance, and a cause of orogenesis
- Physical and chemical principles : rock deformation, isostasy, geochronology and heat production in the lithosphere
- Large-scale features of orogens : thrusts and folds
- Evolution of orogens
- Lateral spreading of orogens : foreland propagation, channel flow and weak zones in the crust
- Metamorphism in orogeny
- The erosion and exhumation of mountains
- Sedimentary history of the foredeep basins
- Deep structure, mountain support and phase changes
- Mountains and climate
- Secular change in orogeney.