Cover Image

A tectonic history of the Earth /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Park, R. G. (R. Graham) (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2025.
Subjects:
Geology, Structural > History.
Morphotectonics > History.
Earth (Planet) > History.
Plate tectonics > History.
Terre > Histoire.
Tectonique des plaques > Histoire.
Morphotectonique > Histoire.
NATURE / Rocks & Minerals
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • Contents
  • List of Figures and Tables
  • 1 In the Beginning: The Birth of the Earth
  • 2 Processes in an Evolving Earth
  • 3 The Hadean and the Archaean: Early Life and the First Continents
  • 4 The Palaeoproterozoic: Plate Tectonics and the Formation of Nuna
  • 5 The Mesoproterozoic: Break-up of Nuna and Assembly of Rodinia
  • 6 Neoproterozoic to Palaeozoic: Rodinia to Pangaea
  • 7 The Palaeozoic Orogenies
  • 8 Mesozoic to Cenozoic: The Break-up of Pangaea
  • 9 The Cenozoic Orogenies I: The Alpine-Himalayan Belt
  • 10 The Cenozoic Orogenies II: The Circum-Pacific Belt
  • 11 The Future
  • References
  • Sourced Illustrations
  • Appendix: The Geological Timescale
  • Index