Plate tectonics : continental drift and mountain building / Wolfgang Frisch, Martin Meschede, Ronald C. Blakey.

This textbook explains how mountains are formed and why there are old and young mountains. It provides a reconstruction of the Earths paleogeography and shows why the shapes of South America and Africa fit so well together. Furthermore, it explains why the Pacific is surrounded by a ring of volcanos...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via Springer)
Main Authors:	Frisch, Wolfgang, 1943- (Author), Meschede, Martin (Author), Blakey, Ronald C., 1945- (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cham : Springer, [2022]
Edition:	Second edition.
Series:	Springer textbooks in earth sciences, geography and environment.
Subjects:	Plate tectonics.