Cliff Ollier, Colin Pain

The Origin of Mountains

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book is a ground breaking and highly illustrated study challenging existing plate tectonics theory. It describes mountains from all over the world, analysing their rocks, structure and age to ascertain what led to their formation.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 364
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. August 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 710g
• ISBN-13: 9780415198899
• ISBN-10: 0415198895
• Artikelnr.: 21534089

Autorenporträt

Cliff Ollier is a Visiting Fellow, Centre for Resource and Environmental Studies, Australian National University and also Emeritus Professor, University of New England. Colin Pain is Assistant Director, Cooperative Research Centre for Landscape Evolution and Mineral Exploitation, Australian Geological Survey Organisation.

Inhaltsangabe

List of tables
Preface
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction
2. Simple plateaus and erosional mountains
3. Fault block mountains
4. European mountains
5. Western North America
6. The Andes
7. Asian mountains
8. Mountains with gravity structures
9. Volcanoes and granite mountains
10. Mountains on passive margins
11. Plains and planation surfaces
drainage and climate
12. Problems of mountain tectonics
13. Science and the origin of mountains
References
Index