Phanerozoic Paleocontinental World Maps Paperback / softback
by A. G. Smith, A. M. Hurley, J. C. Briden
Part of the Cambridge Earth Science Series series
Paperback / softback
Description
First published in 1980, this book shows the positions of the major continental areas during the past 560 million years as four series of computer-drawn maps.
The maps have been drawn for the present day, 10 and 20 million years ago, then at 20-million-year intervals back to 240 million years, and finally at 40-million-year intervals to 560 million years ago.
All the maps are based on quantitative geophysical or topographic information: paleomagnetic pole positions, ocean floor magnetic anomalies, and best fits of the continental margins.
Cylindrical equidistant and Lambert equal-area polar projections are used, with a thirty-degree latitude-longitude grid.
Many interesting problems in the Earth Sciences are global.
These maps provide a framework on which a wide variety of data may be plotted.
Problems in fields as widely separated as palenontology, stratigraphy, geochemistry and tectonics may usefully be displayed on these maps.
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:106 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:27/08/1981
- Category:
- ISBN:9780521232586
Information
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:106 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:27/08/1981
- Category:
- ISBN:9780521232586
