Soft plate and impact tectonics / António Ribeiro ; with a contribution of António Mateus
- Author
- Ribeiro, António, prof
- Published
- Berlin ; New York : Springer, [2002]
- Copyright Date
- ©2002
- Physical Description
- xii, 324 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Contents
- 1. Introduction -- 1.1. From Continental Drift to Rigid Plate Tectonics (1910-1968) -- 1.2. Soft Plate Tectonics (1987-1996) -- 1.3. Beyond Plate Tectonics (1980-?) -- 2. Global Tectonics with Rigid Plates: Foundations and Limitations -- 2.1. Plate Tectonics in Oceans and Continents -- 2.2. Plate Rigidity as a Postulate -- 2.3. Effects of Fluids on Deformation and Its Implications for Composition and Rheology of Lithosphere -- 2.4. Strain and Strain Rates in the Lithosphere: Present and Past -- 2.5. Stress in the Lithosphere: Present and Past -- 2.6. Distributed Deformation in the Lithosphere -- 2.7. Kinematics, Strain and Rheology in Plate Boundaries and Deformed Plate Interiors -- 3. Global Tectonics with Deformable Plates -- 3.1. Introduction -- 3.2. Boudinage of Oceanic Lithosphere: Incremental Aseismic Strain -- 3.3. Homogeneous Shortening of Oceanic Lithosphere -- 3.4. Buckling of the Lithosphere -- 3.5. Viscoelastic Rebound -- 3.6. Tectonic Significance of Fractal Dimensions in Seismicity -- 3.7. Finite and Incremental Strain in Discontinuous Deformation Using Scaling Laws for Faulting -- 3.8. Finite Kinematics and Intraplate Strain -- 3.9. Finite Intraplate Strain: Tests and Paths -- 3.10. Conclusion: The Rheology of Oceanic and Continental Lithosphere -- 3.11. Conclusion: The Driving Mechanism -- 3.12. Time-Dependent Mechanical Response of the Oceanic Lithosphere; Strain Partitioning and Deformation Mechanisms -- 4. The Wilson Cycle Revisited -- 4.1. Plate Tectonics as a Dynamic Process -- 4.2. Intraplate Rift Stage -- 4.3. Red Sea Stage -- 4.4. Atlantic Stage -- 4.5. Diffuse Divergent Plate Boundaries: The Azores Triple Junction -- 4.6. Triggering of Subduction -- 4.7. From Passive to Active Margin: West Iberia -- 4.8. Obduction -- 4.9. Pacific Stage -- 4.10. Collision Stage -- 4.11. Intraplate Orogens -- 4.12. Dynamics of the Lithosphere: Inferences from Tectonics -- 4.13. Plate Tectonics Through Time and Space -- 5. The Earth as an Open Dynamic System -- 5.1. Introduction: Impact Tectonics -- 5.2. Tore as an Impact Crater in the Ocean -- 5.3. Tore as a Strain Marker in Mature Oceanic Lithosphere -- 5.4. Impact Tectonomagmatism at Tore -- 5.5. Conclusion.
- Subject(s)
- ISBN
- 3540679634 (acid-free paper)
- Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [271]-306) and index.
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