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"The theory of plate tectonics has shown that the distribution of continents and oceans on the Earth's surface has changed profoundly during geological time. This collection of essays concerns the geological history of the ""supercontinent"" Gondwana (the equivalent of present-day South America, Africa, India, Australia and Antarctica) and the former ocean, Tethys, which lay to the north of Gondwana in a region extending through what is now southern Europe, the Middle East and the Himalayas. The study is concerned with the Palaeozoic period (about 250 million years ago). Evidence bearing on continental movements is presented from a variety of disciplines: tectonics, palaeomagnetic studies, stratigraphy, and palaeogeography. The first part of the volume is concerned with two aspects of the evolution of Gondwana and Tethys: the tectonic (structural and metamorphic) processes associated with the splitting and dispersal of continents and the evaluation of the palaeomagnetic and stratigraphical records. The second part presents and evaluates palaeontological evidence relating to Gondwana and Tethys. The volume is based on papers presented at a joint meeting, the first Lyell meeting, of the Geological Society and the Palaeontological Association in May 1986."

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Author:   M.G.Audley- Charles ,  A. Hallam ,  M.G. Audley-Charles
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 18.00cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 24.00cm
Weight:   0.813kg
ISBN:  

9780198544487

ISBN 10:   0198544480
Pages:   324
Publication Date:   01 July 1988
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction. Gravity glide and plate tectonics; lithospheric stress, deformation and tectonic cycles - the disruption of Pangaea and the closure of Tethys; basement and cover rock history in western Tethys - HT/LP metamorphism associated with extensional rifting of Gondwana; holocene serial folding in the Zagros; Gondwana and the evolution of the Indian Ocean; evolution of the southern margin of Tethys (north Australian region) from early Permian to late Cretaceous; origin and assembly of south-east Asia continental terranes; origin and assembly of the Tethyside orogenic collage at the expense of Gondwanaland; lower Palaeozoic facies and faunas around Gondwana; fossil plants as indicators of late Palaeozoic plate positions; the nature, extent and subsequent dispersal of the Permian Tethys; unexpected microfaunal communities within the Triassic Tethys; structure and palaeogeography of the western Tethys during the Jurassic - tests based on ammonite palaeobiogeography; middle Jurassic ammonite biogeography supports ambi-Tethyan origin of Tibet; Mesozoic Turkey as part of Europe; the trans-Pacific spread of equatorial shallow-marine benthos in the Cretaceous; Gondwana, Tethys and terrestrial vertebrates during Mesozoic and Cainozoic; tectonics from fossils? - analysis of reef-coral and sea-urchin distributions from late Cretaceous to recent, using a new method; phytogeography of the eastern end of Tethys. Index.

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