Tectonics, Sedimentary Basins, and Provenance: A Celebration of the Career of William R. Dickinson
Title | Tectonics, Sedimentary Basins, and Provenance: A Celebration of the Career of William R. Dickinson PDF eBook |
Author | Raymond V. Ingersoll |
Publisher | Geological Society of America |
Pages | 768 |
Release | 2017-12-28 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 0813725402 |
Through a remarkable combination of intellect, self-confidence, engaging humility, and prodigious output of published work, William R. Dickinson influenced and challenged three generations of sedimentary geologists, igneous petrologists, tectonicists, sandstone petrologists, archaeologists, and other geoscientists. A key figure in the plate-tectonic revolution of the 1960s and 1970s, he explained how the distribution of sediments on Earth's surface could be traced to tectonic processes, and is widely recognized as a founder of modern sedimentary basin analysis. This volume consists of 31 chapters related to Dickinson's research interests; many of the authors are his former students, their students, and their students' students, demonstrating his continuing profound influence. The papers in this volume are an impressive tribute to the depth and breadth of Bill Dickinson's contributions to the geosciences.
Archaeological Evidence for Eustatic Change of Sea Level and Earth Movements in the Western Mediterranean During the Last 2000 Years
Title | Archaeological Evidence for Eustatic Change of Sea Level and Earth Movements in the Western Mediterranean During the Last 2000 Years PDF eBook |
Author | Nicholas Coit Flemming |
Publisher | Geological Society of America |
Pages | 137 |
Release | 1969 |
Genre | Extinct cities |
ISBN | 0813721091 |
Processes Controlling the Composition of Clastic Sediments
Title | Processes Controlling the Composition of Clastic Sediments PDF eBook |
Author | Mark J. Johnsson |
Publisher | Geological Society of America |
Pages | 357 |
Release | 1993-01-01 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 0813722845 |
Geology
Title | Geology PDF eBook |
Author | Alexander Henry Green |
Publisher | |
Pages | 792 |
Release | 1898 |
Genre | Geology |
ISBN |
Tectonosedimentary Relations of Pennsylvanian to Jurassic Strata on the Colorado Plateau
Title | Tectonosedimentary Relations of Pennsylvanian to Jurassic Strata on the Colorado Plateau PDF eBook |
Author | William R. Dickinson |
Publisher | Geological Society of America |
Pages | 196 |
Release | 2018-01-19 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 081372533X |
"Following this discovery and further detrital-zircon studies of Mesozoic strata on the Colorado Plateau, Dr. Dickinson began preparing this volume in order to identify key aspects of the sedimentary and tectonic history of Mesozoic strata of the Colorado Plateau and directly adjacent areas. He divided the strata into seven depositional systems"--
Whence the Mountains?
Title | Whence the Mountains? PDF eBook |
Author | James W. Sears |
Publisher | Geological Society of America |
Pages | 440 |
Release | 2007-01-01 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 0813724333 |
The 19 original papers on the tectonic evolution of mountain systems were collected to mark the 50th anniversary of Price's description of the Canadian Cordillera. A sampling of topics turns up the driving mechanism and three-dimensional circulation of plate tectonics, the Belt-Purcell Basic as the keystone of the Rocky Mountain fold-and-thrust belt in the US and Canada, Silurian-Devonian orogenic events in the central Appalachians and the crystalline southern Appalachians, and defining the eastern boundary of the North Asian craton from structural and subsidence history studies of the Verkhoyansk fold-and-thrust belt. A fold-out sheet of color maps and diagrams is tucked into a pocket inside the back cover.
Ophiolites, Arcs, and Batholiths
Title | Ophiolites, Arcs, and Batholiths PDF eBook |
Author | James Earl Wright |
Publisher | Geological Society of America |
Pages | 582 |
Release | 2008-01-01 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 0813724384 |
Wright (geology, U. of Georgia) and Shervais (geology, Utah State U.) edit selections from a symposium titled "Ophiolites, Batholiths, and Regional Geology: A Session in Honor of Cliff Hopson" held at the Cordilleran Section Meeting of The Geological Society of America in 2005. With contributions from geologists and earth scientists from throughout the United States, the title contains separate sections for papers on the topics of ophiolites, arcs, and batholiths. The publication is illustrated in both black-and-white and color, but contains no index.