Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Geological timescale
- 1 Major features of the Earth and plate tectonics
- 2 Driving mechanisms for plates, slab retreat and advance, and a cause of orogenesis
- 3 Physical and chemical principles: rock deformation, isostasy, geochronology and heat production in the lithosphere
- 4 Large-scale features of orogens: thrusts and folds
- 5 Evolution of orogens
- 6 Lateral spreading of orogens: foreland propagation, channel flow and weak zones in the crust
- 7 Metamorphism in orogeny
- 8 The erosion and exhumation of mountains
- 9 Sedimentary history of the foredeep basins
- 10 Deep structure, mountain support and phase changes
- 11 Mountains and climate
- 12 Secular change in orogeny
- References
- Index
- Plate section
Geological timescale
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Geological timescale
- 1 Major features of the Earth and plate tectonics
- 2 Driving mechanisms for plates, slab retreat and advance, and a cause of orogenesis
- 3 Physical and chemical principles: rock deformation, isostasy, geochronology and heat production in the lithosphere
- 4 Large-scale features of orogens: thrusts and folds
- 5 Evolution of orogens
- 6 Lateral spreading of orogens: foreland propagation, channel flow and weak zones in the crust
- 7 Metamorphism in orogeny
- 8 The erosion and exhumation of mountains
- 9 Sedimentary history of the foredeep basins
- 10 Deep structure, mountain support and phase changes
- 11 Mountains and climate
- 12 Secular change in orogeny
- References
- Index
- Plate section
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- OrogenesisThe Making of Mountains, pp. xPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2012