Island arcs, deep sea trenches, and back-arc basins /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Wiley InterScience (Online service)
Other Authors: Talwani, Manik, Pitman, Walter C., Ewing, W. Maurice (William Maurice), 1906-1974
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington : American Geophysical Union, [1977]
Series:Maurice Ewing series ; 1.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Some basic problems in the trench-arc-back arc system / Seiya Uyeda
  • Subduction in the Indonesian region / Warren Hamilton
  • Tectono-stratigraphic evolution of subduction-controlled sedimentary assemblages / William R. Dickinson
  • Multifold seismic reflection records from the northern Venezuela Basin and the north slope of the Muertos Trench / John W. Ladd, J. Lamar Worzel, and Joel S. Watkins
  • The initiation of trenches : a finite amplitude instability / D.P. McKenzie
  • Lithospheric instabilities / D.L. Turcotte, W.F. Haxby, and J.R. Ockendon
  • Mesozoic tectonics of the southern Alaska margin / J. Casey Moore and William Connelly
  • Multi-channel seismic study in the Venezuelan basin and the Curaçao ridge / M. Talwani [and others]
  • Geometry of Benioff zones : lateral segmentation and downwards bending of the subducted lithosphere / Bryan L. Isacks and Muawia Barazangi
  • Bathymetric highs and development of convergent plate boundaries / John Kelleher and William McCann
  • In situ P-wave velocities in deep earthquake zones of the SW Pacific : evidence for a phase boundary between the upper and lower mantle / Thomas J. Fitch
  • Heat flow in back-arc basins of the western Pacific / T. Watanabe, M.G. Langseth, and R.N. Anderson
  • Seismic and aseismic slip along subduction zones and their tectonic implications / Hiroo Kanamori
  • Growth patterns on the upper trench slope / Daniel E. Karig
  • The significance of landward vergence and oblique structural trends on trench inner slopes / D.R. Seely
  • Sediment subduction and offscraping at Pacific margins / David W. Scholl, Michael S. Marlow, and Alan K. Cooper
  • St. George Basin, Bering Sea shelf : a collapsed Mesozoic margin / Michael S. Marlow, David W. Scholl and Alan K. Cooper
  • Geological consequences of ridge subduction / Stephen E. DeLong and Paul J. Fox
  • Geochemical constraints on the origin of Aleutian magmas / R.W. Kay
  • Trench-volcano gap along the Alaska-Aleutian arc : facts, and speculations on the role of terrigenous sediments for subduction / Klaus H. Jacob, Kazuaki Nakamura, and John N. Davies
  • Seismicity and plate subduction in the central Aleutians / E.R. Engdahl
  • Post Miocene tectonics of the margin of southern Chile / E.M. Herron [and others]
  • A preliminary analysis of the subduction processes along the Andean continental margin, 6° to 45°S / L.D. Kulm, W.J. Schweller, and A. Masias
  • Metallogeny of an Andean-type continental margin in South Korea : implications for opening of the Japan Sea / Richard H. Sillitoe
  • Petrogenesis in island arc systems / A.E. Ringwood
  • Island arc models and the composition of the continental crust / Stuart Ross Taylor
  • Cenozoic explosive volcanism related to East and Southeast Asian arcs / Dragoslav Ninkovich and William L. Donn. Comments on Cenozoic explosive volcanism related to East and Southeast Asian arcs / James P. Kennett and Robert C. Thunell. Reply / Dragoslav Ninkovich and William L. Donn
  • Petrologic and geochemical characteristics of marginal basin basalts / James W. Hawkins Jr.
  • Geochemistry of volcanic rocks from the island arcs and marginal basins of the Scotia Arc region / John Tarney, Andrew V. Saunders, and Stephen D. Weaver
  • Formation and evolution of marginal basins and continental plateaus / M. Nafi Toksöz and Peter Bird
  • Destruction of the early Cretaceous marginal basin in the Andes of Tierra del Fuego / Ronald L. Bruhn and Ian W.D. Dalziel
  • The Baie Verte lineament, Newfoundland : ophiolite complex floor and mafic volcanic fill of a small Ordovician marginal basin / W.S.F. Kidd
  • Tectonic evolution of the South Fiji marginal basin / A.B. Watts, J.K. Weissel, and F.J. Davey
  • Evolution of the Lau basin by the growth of small plates / Jeffrey K. Weissel
  • The Bering Sea
  • a multifarious marginal basin / Allan K. Cooper, Michael S. Marlow, and David W. Scholl
  • The structure and age of acoustic basement in the Okhotsk Sea / C.A. Burk and H.S. Gnibidenko
  • Volcanoes as possible indicators of tectonic stress orientation
  • Aleutians and Alaska / Kazuaki Nakamura, Klaus Jacob, and John Davies
  • Development of sedimentary basins on the lower trench slope / G.F. Moore and D.E. Karig
  • The Uyak Complex, Kodiak Islands, Alaska : a subduction complex of early Mesozoic age / William Connelly [and others]
  • Thin elastic plate analysis of outer rises / J.G. Caldwell [and others]
  • Cenozoic tectonics of East Asia / Maurice J. Terman.