W. Scott Baldridge, Baldridge W. Scott

Geology of the American Southwest

A Journey Through Two Billion Years of Plate-Tectonic History

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Produktbeschreibung

Baldridge provides a concise, accessible account of geology and landscape of the Southwest USA, for students and amateurs in a journey through two billion years of plate tectonic history.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 314
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 512g
• ISBN-13: 9780521016667
• ISBN-10: 0521016665
• Artikelnr.: 21562358

Autorenporträt

W. Scott Baldridge is a Research Scientist in the Earth and Environmental Sciences Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, and an Adjunct Professor at the University of New Mexico. He is currently an associate editor of the Geological Society of America Bulletin, and has been an associate editor of the Journal of Geophysical Research. In 1998 he received an Excellence in Geophysical Education Award from the American Geophysical Union, and in 2000 a Special Commendation Award from the Society of Exploration Geophysicists. He has published widely in the scientific literature. His passion for field geology has taken him to all corners of the American Southwest, and beyond.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Notes and abbreviations
Introduction
1. Growth of a continent: formation and stabilization of continental lithosphere
2. Tantalizing time
3. The international connection: breakup of a supercontinent
4. Stability to orogeny: transformation of the Western Margin
5. Pangea! Collision with Gondwana
6. Deserts to dinosaurs
7. Western orogeny
8. The modern Southwest
References
Glossary
Index.