Earth History and Palaeogeography (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781107105324)

Using full-colour palaeogeographical maps from the Cambrian to the present, this interdisciplinary volume explains how plate motions and surface volcanism are linked to processes in the Earth's mantle, and to climate change and the evolution of the Earth's biota. These new and very detailed maps provide a complete and integrated Phanerozoic story of palaeogeography. They illustrate the development of all the major mountain-building orogenies. Old lands, seas, ice caps, volcanic regions, reefs, and coal beds are highlighted on the maps, as well as faunal and floral provinces. Many other original diagrams show sections from the Earth's core, through the mantle, and up to the lithosphere, and how Large Igneous Provinces are generated, helping to understand how plates have appeared, moved, and vanished through time. Supplementary resources are available online, making this an invaluable reference for researchers, graduate students, professional geoscientists and anyone interested in the geological history of the Earth.

Author: Trond H. Torsvik, L. Robin M. Cocks
ISBN-10: 1107105323
ISBN-13: 9781107105324
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 12/01/2016
Pages: 332
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.61lbs
Size: 11.33h x 8.68w x 0.83d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 09/01/2017