Note: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
Purchase Benefits
What is included with this book?
Preface | |
Major features of the Earth and plate tectonics | |
Driving mechanisms for plates, slab retreat and advance, a reason for orogenesis | |
Physical and chemical principles: rock deformation and heat production in the lithosphere | |
Large scale features of orogenic belts: thrusts, folds, orogenic wedges | |
Evolution of orogens | |
Lateral spreading of orogens: foreland propagation, channel flow and weak zones in the crust | |
Orogenic metamorphism | |
The erosion, uplift and exhumation of orogens | |
The sedimentary history of foreland basins | |
Deep structure: the support of mountains and the importance of phase changes | |
Mountains and climate | |
Precambrian orogenesis | |
References | |
Index | |
Table of Contents provided by Publisher. All Rights Reserved. |
The New copy of this book will include any supplemental materials advertised. Please check the title of the book to determine if it should include any access cards, study guides, lab manuals, CDs, etc.
The Used, Rental and eBook copies of this book are not guaranteed to include any supplemental materials. Typically, only the book itself is included. This is true even if the title states it includes any access cards, study guides, lab manuals, CDs, etc.