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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 detaile...

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Main Author: Torsvik, Trond H.
Other Authors: Cocks, L. R. M.
Format: Printed Book
Published: London Cambridge University Press
Subjects:
Paleogeography.
Paleontology
Paleontology.
Paléogéographie.
Online Access:http://ezproxy.stanford.edu/login?url=https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316225523
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Methods for locating old continents and terranes
  • Tectonic units of the Earth
  • Earth's origins and the Precambrian
  • Cambrian
  • Ordovician
  • Silurian
  • Devonian
  • Carboniferous
  • Permian
  • Triassic
  • Jurassic
  • Cretaceous
  • Paleogene
  • Neogene and Quaternary
  • Climates past and present
  • Appendix 1. Location of Phanerozoic large igneous provinces
  • Appendix 2. Mesozoic to modern Panthalassic and Pacific Ocean plates
  • Appendix 3. Orogenies..

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