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The tectonic evolution of Antarctica [PDF]
, 1977 Five tectonic provinces; three volcanic provinces (each characteristic of a particular set of tectonic conditions) and a Precambrian shield, are outlined and described, in an attempt to illustrate the tectonic evolution of Antarctica. Evidence is presented for at least three structural stages in the development of the Precambrian shield, though it is ...
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Precambrian tectonic evolution of Earth: an outline [PDF]
, 2021 Space probes in our solar system have examined all bodies larger than about 400 km in diameter and shown that Earth is the only silicate planet with extant plate tectonics sensu stricto.
Robb, L. J. +3 more
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The Tectonic Evolution of Asia [PDF]
Geophysical Journal International, 1997 Asia is the youngest continent on our planet and has been assembled largely over the past 400 m.y. In the past decade, following rapid developments on the economic front and political transformations in Asia, Earth science research has continuously become more important for both natural resources evaluation and hazards reduction. Consequently, more and
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Reconstructing the Late Palaeozoic – Mesozoic topographic evolution of the Chinese Tian Shan: available data and remaining uncertainties [PDF]
Advances in Geosciences, 2013 The topographic evolution of continents and especially the growth and dismembering of mountain ranges plays a major role in the tectonic evolution of orogenic systems, as well as in regional or global climate changes.
M. Jolivet +9 more
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Tectonics and human evolution [PDF]
Antiquity, 2006 The authors propose a new model for the origins of humans and their ecological adaptation. The evolutionary stimulus lies not in the savannah but in broken, hilly rough country where the early hominins could hunt and hide. Such ‘roughness’, generated by tectonic and volcanic movement characterises not only the African rift valley but probably the whole
King, Geoffrey, Bailey, Geoff
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Cenozoic Plate Tectonic Reconstructions and Plate Boundary Processes in the Southwest Pacific [PDF]
, 2005 The Australia-Pacific-Antarctic plate circuit has long been a weak link in global plate reconstruction models for Cenozoic time. The time period spanning chron 20 to chron 7 (43-25 Ma) is particularly problematic for global plate models because seafloor
Keller, William R.
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The tectonic evolution of central and Northern Madagascar and its place in the final assembly of Gondwana [PDF]
, 2002 Copyright © 2002 by The University of Chicago. All rights reserved.Recent work in central and northern Madagascar has identified five tectonic units of the East African Orogen (EAO), a large collisional zone fundamental to the amalgamation of Gondwana ...
Windley, F. +3 more
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The evolution of plate tectonics [PDF]
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 2018 To understand how plate tectonics became Earth's dominant mode of convection, we need to address three related problems. (i) What was Earth's tectonic regime before the present episode of plate tectonics began? (ii) Given the preceding tectonic regime, how did plate tectonics become established?
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Frontiers in Earth Science, 2022 The exploration and development of the shale in the Lower Silurian Longmaxi Formation in the Chongqing area has shown that gas production here is commercially viable.
Xin Li +7 more
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Geochemistry and tectonic development of Cenozoic magmatism in the Carpathian–Pannonian region [PDF]
, 2011 This review considers the magmatic processes in the Carpathian–Pannonian Region (CPR) from Early Miocene to Recent times, as well as the contemporaneous magmatism at its southern boundary in the Dinaride and Balkans regions.
Hilary Downes +3 more
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