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The Web of Geological Sciences: Advances, Impacts, and Interactions
Author(s)
Marion E. Bickford
Marion E. Bickford
Department of Earth Sciences, 204 Heroy Geology Laboratory, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York 13244-1070, USA
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Geological Society of America

Volume
500
Copyright:
© 2013 Geological Society of America
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ISBN print:
9780813725000
Publication date:
September 01, 2013
Book Chapter
Tectonics: 50 years after the Revolution
Author(s)
Eldridge M. Moores
Department of Geology, University of California, One Shields Avenue, Davis, California 95616, USA
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Eldridge M. Moores
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M. Burak Yıkılmaz
Department of Geology, University of California, One Shields Avenue, Davis, California 95616, USA
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M. Burak Yıkılmaz
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Louise H. Kellogg
Department of Geology, University of California, One Shields Avenue, Davis, California 95616, USA
Louise H. Kellogg
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Published:September 01, 2013
The Plate Tectonic Revolution that transformed Earth science has occurred together with revolutions in imagery and planetary studies. Earth's outer layer (lithosphere: upper mantle and crust) comprises relatively rigid plates ranging in size from near-global to kilometer scale; boundaries can be sharp (a few kilometers wide to diffuse, hundreds of kilometers) and are reflected in earthquake distribution. Divergent, transform fault, and convergent (subduction) margins are present at all scales. Collisions can occur between several crustal types and at subduction zones of varying polarity. Modern plate processes and their geologic products permit inference of Earth's plate tectonic history in times before...
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Index Terms/Descriptors
- Archean
- asthenosphere
- compression tectonics
- continental margin
- crust
- extension tectonics
- faults
- Hadean
- lithosphere
- magmatism
- mantle
- mantle plumes
- Mars
- oceanic crust
- ophiolite
- orogenic belts
- planets
- plate boundaries
- plate collision
- plate convergence
- plate divergence
- plate tectonics
- plates
- Precambrian
- sea-floor spreading
- strike-slip faults
- subduction
- subduction zones
- supercontinents
- tectonics
- terranes
- terrestrial planets
- transform faults
- triple junctions
- upper mantle
- Valles Marineris
- Venus
- Wilson cycle
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