Course S339 (Understanding the Continents) - Softcover

Open University Course Team; Blakes, Stephen; Argles, Tom

 
9780749256661: Course S339 (Understanding the Continents)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0749256664 ISBN 13: 9780749256661
Publisher: Open University Worldwide, 2003

Synopsis

This book investigates the processes that generate and modify the Earth’s continental crust at subduction zones. Whereas divergent plate boundaries involve the generation of oceanic lithosphere and the splitting of continental lithosphere, it is at convergent boundaries where much of the tectonic, metamorphic and igneous turmoil that leaves its imprint on the geology of continents, is active.

This book covers Observations, Magma Generation in Subduction Zones, Evolution of Magmas at Subduction Zones, Sediment Recycling, Terrance Accretion at Arc Margins, and Crustal Growth and Thickening at Arc Margins.

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Publisher
Open University Worldwide
Publication date
2003
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0749256664
ISBN 13 
9780749256661
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
3
Number of pages
153