Plate Tectonics Continental Drift and Mountain Building
Description
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, 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.
Keywords
ScienceEarth SciencesGeologyAstronomy
2010Book
Author(s)Wolfgang Frisch
PublisherSpringer Berlin Heidelberg
ISBN9783540765035
LanguageEnglish
