Major Impacts and Plate Tectonics: A Model for the Phanerzoic Evolution of the Earth's Lithosphere - Softcover

Price, Neville

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ISBN 10: 0415238994 ISBN 13: 9780415238991

Verlag: CRC Press, 2000

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This book presents a breakthrough in our understanding of plate tectonics. The author looks at the importance of the impacts on the earth of objects from space and presents evidence showing that these impacts can cause significant changes that cannot be explained by current theories of plate tectonics. He demonstrates that major impacts often coincide with the development of continental flood and oceanic plateau basalts and with developments that can be associated with periods of extinction. He concludes that geological history comprises periods of relatively orderly, evolutionary change punctuated by catastrophic changes induced by major impacts that reset the evolutionary clock.

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This is an ambitious and controversial book. Internationally respected geologist Neville J. Price points out that the currently held mechanisms of the widely accepted plate tectonic theory, upon which geoscience has rested for the past 30 years, are not capable of generating the magnitude of stresses required to drive plates at their known speed, or to explain known sudden changes in the direction of plate motion. By considering the experimental, field and theoretical aspects of impact tectonics, he concludes that traditional geology is largely determined and driven by major impacts. He then explores the future implications of small and medium-to-large sized impacts on the Earth.

This book is written as a 'wake up call for geologists' from advanced undergraduate level upwards, and fills an important gap in the literature. Impact theory will stimulate healthy discussion and debate, and represents a major breakthrough in our understanding.

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• Verlag: CRC Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2000
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0415238994
• ISBN 13: 9780415238991
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 370
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