Major Impacts and Plate Tectonics - A Model for the Phanerzoic Evolution of the Earth's Lithosphere

This book presents a breakthrough in our understanding of plate tectonics. The author looks at the importance of the impacts on the earth of objects from space and presents evidence showing that these impacts can cause significant changes that cannot be explained by current theories of plate tectonics. He demonstrates that major impacts often coincide with the development of continental flood and oceanic plateau basalts and with developments that can be associated with periods of extinction. He concludes that geological history comprises periods of relatively orderly, evolutionary change punctuated by catastrophic changes induced by major impacts that reset the evolutionary clock.

List of contents

1. Earth and the Solar System 2. Characteristics, Stress in and Strength of the Lithosphere 3. Assessment of Mechanisms That Cause Plate Movement 4. Hot Spots, Plumes and Lithospheric Thinning, Large Igneous Provinces and the Splitting of Continents 5. Geometries and Mechanisms of Impact Structures 6. Impact and Plate Motion, the Development of Flood and Plateau Basalts Regional Track
ks, Impact Control and Future Risks

About the author

Price, Neville

Summary

This book evaluates the mechanisms that give rise to tectonic plate movements and presents evidence to show that major impacts on earth have caused significant and dramatic changes in their track.

Product details

• Authors: Neville Price, Neville (University College London Price, Price Neville
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2021
• EAN: 9780415238991
• ISBN: 978-0-415-23899-1
• No. of pages: 368
• Dimensions: 174 mm x 246 mm x 21 mm
• Weight: 907 g
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geology; SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Geology, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Environmental / General, Geochemistry