The Changing Framework of the Guiana Shield (SpringerBriefs in Earth System Sciences)
Language: English
Published by Springer, 2025
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- Title
- The Changing Framework of the Guiana Shield (SpringerBriefs in Earth System Sciences)
- Author
- Kroonenberg, Salomon
- Publisher
- Springer
- Publication year
- 2025
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 303186333X
- ISBN 13
- 9783031863332
This book describes the widely different concepts that have been developed about the general structure and origin of the Guiana shield during the last one hundred years. A review of the evolution of thoughts about the geological framework of the Guiana Shield shows that many problems discussed at present have deep roots in the past: is the shield essentially an Archean craton reworked and remobilized by later Proterozoic events, or is it the result of juvenile continental accretion around pre-existing Archean nuclei? Is the tectonic development comparable to that in the Archean or to modern orogenic processes, and what is the role of plate tectonics? All these questions have an immediate bearing on metallogenesis in the shield. On the basis of many published maps and stratigraphic schemes, advances in geochronology, geochemistry and structural geology, this book shows that many problems have still to be solved. It is based on thorough literature research, including many 'grey' papers in old conference proceedings that are not available digitally, written in the five languages of the Guiana Shield countries Dutch, English, French, Portuguese and Spanish, collected by the author during the fifty years of his involvement in Guiana Shield research. One of the striking features is that from the beginning until the present day, there are discrepancies between the views of scientists from the northern Guianian countries Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana on the one hand, and the views of many Brazilian scientists in the south on the other hand, both sides commonly ignoring or neglecting the knowledge obtained by the other side across the rainforest-clad divide. Only a recent international cooperation programme opened the dialogue. By bringing together these views, the book contributes to a better understanding of the history of the Guiana Shield.
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About the Author
PhD 1976, University of Amsterdam, on high-grade metamorphism in SW Suriname. 1972-1978 geologist-petrologist Geological Mining Service Suriname ; 1978-1979, lecturer physical geography, University College Swaziland; 1979-1982 lecturer Remote Sensing Centro Interamericano de Fotointerpretación, Bogotá, Colombia; 1982-1996 Full professor of Geology, Wageningen Agricultural University, the Netherlands; 1996-2009 Full professor of Geology, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands; 2009-present, emeritus and guest researcher Delft University of Technology; 2017-present Guest researcher Utrecht University; 2017-present Endowed professor of geology, Anton de Kom University of Suriname. Awards: Plancius Medal, Koninklijk Nederlands Aardrijkskundig Genootschap, 2023; F.P. Litke Golden Medal, Russian Geographical Society, March 2021; Van Waterschoot van der Gracht Medal, Royal Netherlands Geological and Mining Society, November 201; Honorary Professor Moscow State University, 2008. 50 years of research in the Guiana Shield, 170 full papers, 8 books for non-specialists, many media outlets, see website www.salomonkroonenberg.nl for details.
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