- Title : Continents and Supercontinents
- Author : John J. W. Rogers
- Rating : 4.83 (430 Vote)
- Publish : 2016-5-13
- Format : Hardcover
- Pages : 304 Pages
- Asin : 0195165896
- Language : English
Rogers is the author, co-author, editor, or co-editor of seven previous books. ROGERS is the W.R. JOHN J.W. Kenan, Jr., Professor in Geology at the University of North Carolina. He completed he Ph.D. He is a Fellow and Past President of the International Division of the Geological Soci
Rogers is the author, co-author, editor, or co-editor of seven previous books. ROGERS is the W.R. JOHN J.W. Kenan, Jr., Professor in Geology at the University of North Carolina. He completed he Ph.D. He is a Fellow and Past President of the International Division of the Geological Society of America, a Fellow of the Geological Society of India, and an Honorary Fellow of the Geological Society of Africa. He has conducted research in the western United States, the Caribbean, North Africa, the Middle East, and India. work at Caltech in 1954 and was hired as one of three faculty to staff the new Geology Department at Rice University.
The record is most difficult to interpret for the oldest supercontinent, Columbia, and also controversial for Rodinia, the next youngest supercontinent. The middle part of the book concentrates on supercontinents, beginning with a discussion of types of orogenic belts, distinguishing those that formed by closure of an ocean basin within the belt and those that formed by intracontinental deformation caused by stresses generated elsewhere. The book also briefly describes the histories of continents after the breakup of Pangea, and discusses how changes in the composition of seawater, climate, and life may have been affected by the sizes and locations of continents and supercontinents.. It also discusses how these processes affect the composition of seawater, climate, and the evolution of life. To this day, there is a great amount of controversy about where, when and how the so-called supercontinents--Pangea, Godwana, Rodinia, and Columbia--were made and broken. This information permits discrimination between models of supercontinent formation by accretion of numerous small terranes and by reorganization of large old continental blocks. Continents and Supercontinents frames that controversy by giving all the necessary background on how continental crust is formed, modified, and destroyed, and what forces move plates.
This background leads to a description of the assembly and fragmentation of supercontinents throughout earth history.
Ro& could not find what i wanted: a telecast that showed early supercontinents, how they broke up, how they reassembled & explained why they behaved as they did. Its funny, has space to color and use different coloring techniques. Great explanations of herbs.. If this is suppose to be life changing recovery, you would think someone would have shared about it. Subbaram Naidu, Idaho State University (formerly Book Review Editor: IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control; Wiley International Journals of Robust and Nonlinear Control and Optimal Control: Applications and Methods and Elsevier International Journal Mechatronics: The Science of Intelligent Machines).The “hunger for power” by both developed and developing emerging markets and recent catastrophes such as the major blackout in the Northeastern USA in 2003 brought electrical power grid to the forefront in the 21st century with two challenging of making the grid “green” and “smart”. I love the gold lines on the pages and the cover. After reading this book you will want to avoid a biopsy unless all information points to its absolute need.. The imagery in this book is so vivid, I felt I was at the military funeral, and could smell the sweat as Jordie dragged Alex into physical therapy. Especially in the first two steps she gives sage advice"this book provides a very thorough review of its subject matter, and will be accessible to those who have had an introduction to tectonics, petrology, and geochemistry."--Choice
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