Plate Tectonics : Continental Drift and Mountain Building

Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2011

by Martin Meschede , Ronald C. Blakey , Wolfgang Frisch

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Format Paperback / Softback

ISBN-10 3662501511

ISBN-13 9783662501511

Edition Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2011

Publisher Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG

Imprint Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K

Country of Manufacture DE

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Aug 23rd, 2016

Print length 212 Pages

Weight 576 grams

Dimensions 20.90 x 27.80 x 2.20 cms

Product Classification: Solar system: the Sun & planets Geology & the lithosphere

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How are mountains formed? Why are there old and young mountains? Why do the shapes of South America and Africa fit so well together? Why is the Pacific surrounded by a ring of volcanoes and earthquake prone areas while the edges of the Atlantic are relatively peaceful?Frisch and Meschede and Blakey answer all these questions and more through the presentation and explanation of the geo-dynamic processes upon which the theory of continental drift is based and which have lead to the concept of plate tectonics.

Frisch and Meschede and Blakey answer all these questions and more through the presentation and explanation of the geo-dynamic processes upon which the theory of continental drift is based and which have lead to the concept of plate tectonics.

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