Phanerozoic Paleocontinental World Maps

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Part of Cambridge Earth Science Series

Authors:
A. G. Smith, University of Cambridge
A. M. Hurley
J. C. Briden

Date Published: September 1981
availability: Available
format: Paperback
isbn: 9780521232586

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First published in 1980, this book shows the positions of the major continental areas during the past 560 million years as four series of computer-drawn maps. The maps have been drawn for the present day, 10 and 20 million years ago, then at 20-million-year intervals back to 240 million years, and finally at 40-million-year intervals to 560 million years ago. All the maps are based on quantitative geophysical or topographic information: paleomagnetic pole positions, ocean floor magnetic anomalies, and best fits of the continental margins. Cylindrical equidistant and Lambert equal-area polar projections are used, with a thirty-degree latitude-longitude grid. Many interesting problems in the Earth Sciences are global. These maps provide a framework on which a wide variety of data may be plotted. Problems in fields as widely separated as palenontology, stratigraphy, geochemistry and tectonics may usefully be displayed on these maps.

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Product details
- Date Published: September 1981
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521232586
- length: 106 pages
- dimensions: 279 x 210 x 6 mm
- weight: 0.26kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Introduction
The projections
Section 1. Mesozoic and Cenozoic Paleocontinental maps: Introduction
1. Method of making the maps
2. Reliability of the maps
3. Maps 1-52
Section 2. Paleozoic Composite Maps: Introduction
1. Method of making the composites
2. The permo-triassic problem
3. Reliability of the maps
4. Acknowledgements
5. Maps 53-88
Bibliography.
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Authors
A. G. Smith, University of Cambridge
A. M. Hurley
J. C. Briden