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Global Tectonics

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The third edition of this widely acclaimed textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to all aspects of global tectonics, and includes major revisions to reflect the most significant recent advances in the field.A fully revised third edition of this highly acclaimed text written by eminent authors including one of the pioneers of plate tectonic theory,Major revisions to this new edition reflect the most significant recent advances in the field, including new and expanded chapters on Precambrian tectonics and the supercontinent cycle and the implications of plate tectonics for environmental change,Combines a historical approach with process science to provide a careful balance between geological and geophysical material in both continental and oceanic regimes.

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structural geology southern cordillera rifts and rifted margins crustal buoyancy forces nonvolcanic margins upper mantle wedge dilational first motions flat slab segments granitoid domes propagating rift model magmatic segments rifting progresses earthquake focal mechanism solutions inner valley floor mantle drag melt lens weak lower crust arc continent collision locking depths backarc basins magma addition accretionary orogens supercontinent cycle forearc setting topographic uplift

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