TY  - BOOK
AU  - Frisch,Wolfgang
AU  - Meschede,Martin
AU  - Blakey,Ronald C.
TI  - Plate tectonics: continental drift and mountain building 
SN  - 9783540765035 (acidfree paper)
U1  - 551.1/36 
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Heidelberg [Germany], New York
PB  - Springer
KW  - Plate tectonics
KW  - Continental drift
KW  - Orogeny
KW  - Geology, Structural
N1  - Contractional theory, continental drift and plate tectonics: Plate tectonics : a change in the paradigm of the geosciences ; Early history of geodynamic thought ; From continental drift to plate tectonics ; The plate tectonic concept ; The pattern of magnetic polarity stripes ; Plate motions and earthquake zones ; Two kinds of continental margins ; Magmatism and plate tectonics ; What drives the plates and what slows them down? ; Collision and mountain building -- Plate movements and their geometric relationships: Helpful transform faults ; Relative movements and triple junctions ; Relative plate velocities : past and present ; Direct measurement of plate movements ; Apparent contradictions in the plate motion pattern -- Continental graben structures: Symmetric and asymmetric crustal extension ; Sediments and ore deposits in graben structures ; Volcanism in graben structures ; The Upper Rhine Graben in Germany ; The history of the Upper Rhine Graben ; Magmatism and heat flow in the Upper Rhine Graben ; The large East African rift system ; The Red Sea : from rift to drift ; The extensional area of the Basin and Range Province ; The development of metamorphic domes ; A brief history of the Basin and Range Province --
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