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Contents
TECTONIC PROFILE | 3 |
Philosophy of orocline concept | 86 |
NONUNIFORMITARIANISM | 114 |
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Africa America angle assumed Atlantic Australia axis basins becomes belt blocks Carey cause close constant continental continents core couple crust crustal cycle deformation depth developed dextral direction distance early earth east effect energy equator expansion extension failure faults field figure flow folds fracture further geological gravity greater heat hemisphere Hence implied increase indicated interpreted involved latitude less lower magnetic mantle mass maximum mean moon motion moved movement normal North North America northern obliquity observed occur ocean orbit origin oroclines orogenic Pacific palaeomagnetic pattern period Permian planets plate polar pole polygons position present pressure processes produce radius range region relation relative remains respect result ridges rift rising rocks rotation scale sediments separated shear similar sinistral South southern spreading stress structures suggested surface tectonic tension Tethyan tion trench viscosity whole wobble zone
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| Title | The Expanding Earth Volume 10 of Developments in geotectonics, ISSN 0419-0254 |
| Author | Samuel Warren Carey |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Elsevier Scientific Publishing Company, 1976 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | Jul 9, 2008 |
| ISBN | 0444414851, 9780444414854 |
| Length | 488 pages |
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