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Plate Tectonics: Continental Drift and Mountain Building

Plate Tectonics: Continental Drift and Mountain Building


Title:Plate Tectonics: Continental Drift and Mountain Building Author:Wolfgang Frisch, Martin Meschede, Ronald C. Blakey Publisher:Springer ISBN:3540765034 Year: 2010 Pages:212 Lamguage:English Foramat:PDF Size: 119.2 MB

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 areВrelatively peaceful?
Frisch andВMeschede 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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