The Mid-Oceanic Ridges: Mountains Below Sea Level |  | Author: Adolphe Nicolas
Creator: T. Reimer
Publisher: Springer
Category: Book
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Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Pages: 200
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ISBN: 3540573801
EAN: 9783540573807
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The existing oceans are geologically relatively young. They formed when a large supercontinent (Pangaea) broke apart some 150 Ma ago. The mid-oceanic ridges are narrow belts of submarine mountains marking the boundaries between plates which are moving apart, with new oceanic crust being created at the same time. Under the continents oceanic crust is subducted. The ocean bottom is an ideal location to study recent geodynamic processes on Earth. Of special interest for the reader will be the combination of the most recent oceanographic data with ophiolites, representing fossil ocean crust, obducted onto the continents by tectonic processes. The book is mainly written for students, teachers and scientists in the broad field of geosciences. In addition, it will be of interest to a broad readership since the text is accompanied by figures, most in color, of excellent quality and significance.
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If we could see through the oceans July 27, 2000
Gianna Maria Garda
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Losts of information on the Moon, Mars, Venus and even outer planets' satellites have been distributed in papers and magazines, thanks to images captured and transmitted to us by spacecrafts and telescopes. And maybe we know much more about these Earth-like bodies than our own Earth. If we compare the planets in our Solar System, we will notice that a great part of ours is hidden under the oceans and what artificial satellites can scan is greenish-brown continents on a dark blue background. What does our "home" really look like? As the cover shows, Adolphe Nicolas has elegantly achieved the task of focusing the processes that create and destroy oceanic crust, by presenting real evidence such as colorful photographs of pillow lavas of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge and the Oman ophiolites and illustrations that clearly explain the causes and consequences of plate motions and the constitution of Earth's lithosphere... not to mention nine revealing chapters and a glossary of scientific terms. This book is not only aimed at geosciences students and researchers, but to all who care for and what to learn more about this beautiful blue planet.
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