Keywords:
Geophysics ; Research
Description / Table of Contents:
Front Cover -- Investigating Seafloors and Oceans: From Mud Volcanoes to Giant Squid -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1: The Chaotic and Vibrant Seafloor -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.1.1. Exposed Oceanic Mantle -- 1.1.2. Reversal of Earths Magnetic Field -- 1.1.3. Consequences of Earths Magnetic Field Reversal -- 1.2. Discovery of Formation of Different Continents from One Big Land Mass -- 1.2.1. Clues Introduced by Ortelius, Suess, Mantovani, Wegener, and Toit -- 1.2.2. Hypotheses Proposed for Explaining Continental Drift -- 1.2.3. Arthur Holmess Proposal of Convection Current Cells in Earths Mantle in Support of Continental Drift -- 1.2.4. Studies of Earthquakes and Mountain Building in Support of Continental Drift -- 1.3. Evolving the Notion of Tectonic Plates Floating on Molten Lava -- 1.3.1. Discovery of Volcanic Ridge Systems Snaking Around the Globe in a Chain -- 1.3.2. Discoveries of Zebra Stripe-like Magnetic Patterns and Increasing Age of Seafloor with Distance From Ridge Crests -- 1.3.3. Proposal of Seafloor Spreading Theory-Contribution by Hess -- 1.3.4. Plate Tectonics-Unification of Continental Drift and Seafloor Spreading -- 1.4. Triple Junctions on Seafloors -- 1.4.1. R-R-R Triple Junctions -- 1.4.1.1. Afar triple junction -- 1.4.1.2. Rodrigues triple junction -- 1.4.1.3. Azores triple junction -- 1.4.2. The Only Known T-T-T Junction on Earth-Boso Triple Junction -- 1.4.3. Difficult-to-Classify Triple Junction-Bouvet Triple Junction -- 1.4.4. Specialty of Chile Triple Junction -- 1.5. Rotating Microplates -- 1.5.1. Clockwork Motion by Seafloor Microplates -- 1.5.2. The 2015 Discovery of the First Oceanic Microplate in the Indian Ocean -- 1.6. Formation of Submarine Mountain Chains, Seamounts, Island Arcs, Mud Volcanoes, Canyons, and Trenches -- 1.6.1. Seafloor Mountain Chains.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
Pages:
612 Seiten
ISBN:
9780128093573
DDC:
550.72
Language:
English
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index. Description based on print version record
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