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Earth history and palaeogeography /
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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Cambridge University Press
2017
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| Accés en línia: | http://ezproxy.stanford.edu/login?url=https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316225523 |
Taula de continguts:
- 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..