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More About This Title Paleogeodynamics: The Plate Tectonic Evolution ofthe Earth
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Published by the American Geophysical Union as part of the Special Publications Series.
This volume presents the English language translation of L.P. Zonenshain and M.I. Kuzmin's classic text Paleogeodynamics, first published in Russian in 1992. The study of paleogeodynamics, or plate tectonics, has had an incredible impact on geological research in the former Soviet Union. The authors of this text were among the first to systematically study and utilize the plate tectonic model in the Soviet Union.
Within this book the entire sweep of plate tectonic observation, interpretation and example are presented, including detailed descriptions and analysis related to oceanic ridge structures, geochemistry, plate tectonic processes, seismology, tectonostratigraphy terranes, paleoclimatology, paleomagnetism, reconstruction of past plate motions and global Earth history models. Because Zonenshain and his colleagues at the Shirshov Institute of Oceanography pioneered the quantitatively precise mathematical analysis of past plate and terrane motions, one of the sections is highly mathematical, presenting for the first time their development of reconstruction techniques based upon spherical geometry. The extensive bibliography presents and combines both Russian and English language references. Also unique to this volume are numerous examples taken from the plate tectonic history of portions of the former Soviet Union and from data collected during Soviet oceanographic cruises.
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Preface vi
Introduction 1
Review of Recent Lithospheric Plates and Their Boundaries 3
Lithosphere and Asthcnosphcre 3
Plate Boundaries 8
Divergent Plate Boundaries 9
Convergent Plate Boundaries 54
Transform Plate Boundaries 88
Granitoid Magmatism 92
Geological Complexes as Indicators of Geodynamic Settings 100
Kinematics of Lithospheric Plates 102
Mathematical Description of Plate Motions 102
Calculation of Motion Rates 135
Hot Spots and Hot Fields 137
General Characteristics and Significance for Paleogeodynamics 137
Compositionf Intraplate Magmas 139
Distribution of Hot Spots 142
Hot and Cold Fields of the Earth's Mantle 143
Tectonics of Hot Fields 144
Paleomagnetic Methods 147
Paleomagnetict Mehods for Determination of Continental Drift 147
Linear Magneti Ac nomalieisn the O ceans 155
FossiOl ceanicM agnetic, anomomalies 160
Paleoclimatic Indicators 161
AIIochthonous (Far-Traveled) Tectonic Terranes 168
Examples of Combined Use of Data From Different Sources 175
Reconstruction of the Absolute Motion of Continents in the Late Paleozoic and Early Mesozoic 175
Paleogeodynamic Reconstruction of thse Urals 181
Reconstruction of the Pacific Plate Motion 186
General Pattern of Plate Motion in the Phanerozoic 196
Summary 202
Appendix Table 203
