Soft plate and impact tectonics
By: António Ribeiro ; with a contribution of António Mateus.
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Berlin; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 324
Subjects: Plate tectonics
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-306) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: 1 Introduction; title: 1.1 From Continental Drift to Rigid Plate Tectonics (1910-1968); title: 1.2 Soft Plate Tectonics (1987-1996); title: 1.3 Beyond Plate Tectonics (1980-?); title: 2 Global Tectonics with Rigid Plates: Foundations and Limitations.; title: 2.1 Plate Tectonics in Oceans and Continents; title: 2.2 Plate Rigidity as a Postulate; title: 2.3 Effects of Fluids on Deformation and Its Implications for Composition and Rheology of Lithosphere; title: 2.4 Strain and Strain Rates in the Lithosphere: Present and Past; title: 2.5 Stress in the Lithosphere: Present and Past; title: 2.6 Distributed Deformation in the Lithosphere; title: 2.7 Kinematics, Strain and Rheology in Plate Boundaries and Deformed Plate Interiors; title: 3 Global Tectonics with Deformable Plates; title: 3.1 Introduction; title: 3.2 Boudinage of Oceanic Lithosphere: Incremental Aseismic Strain; title: 3.3 Homogeneous Shortening of Oceanic Lithosphere; title: 3.4 Buckling of the Lithosphere; title: 3.5 Viscoelastic Rebound; title: 3.6 Tectonic Significance of Fractal Dimensions in Seismicity; title: 3.7 Finite and Incremental Strain in Discontinuous Deformation Using Scaling Laws for Faulting; title: 3.8 Finite Kinematics and Intraplate Strain; title: 3.9 Finite Intraplate Strain: Tests and Paths; title: 3.10 Conclusion: The Rheology of Oceanic and Continental Lithosphere; title: 3.11 Conclusion: The Driving Mechanism; title: 3.12 Time-Dependent Mechanical Response of the Oceanic Lithosphere; Strain Partitioning and Deformation Mechanisms; title: 4 The Wilson Cycle Revisited; title: 4.1 Plate Tectonics as a Dynamic Process; title: 4.2 Intraplate Rift Stage; title: 4.3 Red Sea Stage; title: 4.4 Atlantic Stage; title: 4.5 Diffuse Divergent Plate Boundaries: The Azores Triple Junction; title: 4.6 Triggering of Subduction; title: 4.7 From Passive to Active Margin: West Iberia; title: 4.8 Obduction; title: 4.9 Pacific Stage; title: 4.10 Collision Stage; title: 4.11 Intraplate Orogens; title: 4.12 Dynamics of the Lithosphere: Inferences from Tectonics; title: 4.13 Plate Tectonics Through Time and Space; title: 5 The Earth as an Open Dynamic System; title: 5.1 Introduction: Impact Tectonics; title: 5.2 Tore as an Impact Crater in the Ocean; title: 5.3 Tore as a Strain Marker in Mature Oceanic Lithosphere; title: 5.4 Impact Tectonomagmatism at Tore; title: 5.5 Conclusion.