Author : Garry D. Karner
Publisher : Geological Society of London
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 44,83 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781862392281
Book Description
This volume summarises our present understanding of the formation of passive continental margins and their ocean-continent transitions. It outlines the geological, geophysical and petrological observations that characterize extensional systems, and how such observations can guide and constrain dynamic and kinematic models of continental lithosphere extension, breakup and the inception of organized sea-floor spreading.