Call number:
M 93.0249/2
In:
Geological atlas of western and central Europe
Type of Medium:
Monograph available for loan
Pages:
130 S.
Note:
Contents: 1. Introduction. - 2. Suturing of Pangea. - 2.1 The Late Caledonian Tectonic Framework of Western and Central Europe. - 2.1.1 North Sea area and the North German-Polish Caledonides. - 2.1.2 Mid-European Caledonides and Ligerian-Moldanubian Cordillera. - 2.1.3 British Isles and Rockall-Hatton Plateau. - 2.2 Caledonian Plate Tectonics. - 2.3 Arctic-North Atlantic Wrench and Rift System and the Acadian-Ligerian Orogeny. - 2.4 Devonian and Carboniferous Rifts of the Central and Northern British Isles. - 2.5 Evolution of the Variscan Foredeep Basin. - 2.5.1 Devonian to Early Carboniferous Tensional Setting. - 2.5.2 Late Carboniferous Compressional Setting. - 2.6 Evolution of the Central Armorican-Saxothuringian Successor Basin. - 2.6.1. Central Armorican Basin. - 2.6.2 Saxothuringian-Barrandian Basin. - 2.6.3 Northern Massif Central, Vosges and Black Forest. - 2.6.4 Connections between the Central Armorican-Saxothuringian and the Cornwallc Rhenish-East Sudetic Basins. - 2.7 Geodynamics of the Variscan Orogen. - 2.8 Late Variscan Wrench Tectonics. - 3. Permo-Triassic Development of Pangea. - 3.1 Late Permian Post-Orogenic Collapse of the Variscan Fold Belt and its Foreland. - 3.1.1 Saxonian Deserts. - 3.1.2 Thuringian Transgression of the Arctic Seas. - 3.2 Triassic Rifts and Tethys Transgression. - 3.2.1 Buntsandstein. - 3.2.2 Muschelkalk. - 3.2.3 Keuper. - 3.2.4 Northern Facies Province. - 3.2.5 Triassic subsidence patterns. - 4. Pangean Disintegration: Opening of the Central Atlantic, the North Atlantic and the Neo-Tethys. - 4.1 Rhaetian Transgression. - 4.2 Early Jurassic Link-Up ofTethys and Arctic Seas. - 4.3 Mid-Cimmerian Revolution. - 4.4 Late Middle and Late Jurassic Polarization of the European Rift Systems. - 4.5 Early Cretaceous Rifting Phases and Sea Level Changes. - 4.5.1 Arctic-North Atlantic Rift and North-West European Basin. - 4.5.2 Western Shelves and Paris Basin. - 5. Late Cretaceous Sea-Floor Spreading and Onset of Alpine Plate Collision. - 5.1 The Late Cretaceous Transgression. - 5.2 Late Cretaceous Subsidence of the North Sea Basin and the Atlantic Shelves. - 5.3 Sub-Hercynian and Laramide Alpine Foreland Compression. - 6. Cenozoic Opening of the Norwegian-Greenland Sea, Alpine Orogeny and Alpine Late Orogenic Collapse System. - 6.1 Cenozoic Fauna! Provinces and Sea Level Changes. - 6.2 Thule an Volcanism and Cenozoic Development of the Atlantic Shelves. - 6.3 The Cenozoic North Sea Basin. - 6.3.1 Palaeogene Deep-water Clastics. - 6.3.2 Neogene Shallowing of the Basin. - 6.3.3 Subsidence Pattern and Mechanisms. - 6.4 North German-Polish Platform. - 6.5 Alpine and Carpathian Foredeeps. - 6.5.1 The Jura Mountains. - 6.6 Pannonian Basin. - 6.7 Interplay between Foreland Compression and Rifting. - 6.7.1 Inversion of the Western Shelf and Channel Area. - 6.7.2 Cenozoic Rifts and Volcanism. - 6.7.3 Geodynamic considerations. - 7. Thoughts on Mechanisms of Basin Subsidence. - 7.1 Rifting. - 7.2 Passive Margins and Inactive Rifts. - 7.3 Wrench Faulting. - 7.4 Foredeeps. - 7.5 Intra-plate compression. - 7.6 Sedimentary Loading of the Crust and Relative Sea Level Changes. - Postscript. - List of Text figures. - List of Enclosures. - References.
Location:
Upper compact magazine
Branch Library:
GFZ Library
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