The South Atlantic

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvi

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2. A Model for the South Atlantic

   • A. E. M. Nairn, F. G. Stehli

   Pages 1-24

3. Geology of the Amazon and Parnaiba Basins

   • João José Bigarella

   Pages 25-86

4. The Brazilian Marginal Basins

   • H. E. Asmus, F. C. Ponte

   Pages 87-133

5. The Geology of the Basins of the Argentine Continental Margin and Malvinas Plateau

   • C. M. Urien, J. J. Zambrano

   Pages 135-169

6. The Scotia Arc and Antarctic Margin

   • Ian W. D. Dalziel, David H. Elliot

   Pages 171-246

7. The Evolution of the Paleozoic Cape Basin, Southern Margin of Africa

   • Izak C. Rust

   Pages 247-276

8. The Atlantic Margin of Southern Africa Between Latitude 17° South and the Cape of Good Hope

   • H. Martin

   Pages 277-300

9. The Equatorial Marginal Basins of West Africa

   • S. Franks, A. E. M. Nairn

   Pages 301-350

10. The Geologic History of the Marginal Basins Along the North Shore of the Gulf of Guinea

    • E. Machens

    Pages 351-390

11. Outline of Precambrian Chronology in Lands Bordering the South Atlantic, Exclusive of Brazil

    • Patrick M. Hurley, John R. Rand

    Pages 391-410

12. The Precambrian Evolution of the South American Cratonic Margin South of the Amazon River

    • F. F. M. de Almeida, G. Amaral, U. G. Cordani, K. Kawashita

    Pages 411-446

13. Orogeny and Reactivation to the West and Southeast of the West African Craton

    • Norman Kennedy Grant

    Pages 447-492

14. Islands of the South Atlantic

    • P. E. Baker

    Pages 493-553

15. The Age of the South Atlantic

    • John W. Ladd, Geoffrey O. Dickson, Walter C. Pitman III

    Pages 555-573

16. Back Matter

    Pages 575-583

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Everyone working in a problem as complex as continental drift, must at some time have feit the need for an objective data summary in fields other than his own. It is a scientific dilemma that, aIthough there is evident need for researchers with competence in many fields (the classical natural scientist), the time in­ volved in acquiring such broad experience is so great as to ren der the task largely impossible. The alternative seems to be the team approach, and we have espoused it in tbis volume. Editors and contributors alike have tried in this book to keep the accent upon factual information and to reduce interpretation to a minimum. Interpretation there must be, however, since without it science is but an inteHectual pastime comparable to pbilately. The librarian's need to classify results in the appearance of our names upon the spine oftbis volume, however, we would like to make it clear that the book has been a truly cooperative effort and could not have succeeded but for the active help of the individual contributors, whose assistance seldom was re­ stricted to their chapters. Special thanks must be given to our South American coHeagues, for the tolerance with which they viewed out editorial attempts, and to Dr. E. Machens, for his careful review of the translation of his manu­ script. We wish also to acknowledge the help of Dr. C. W.

• continental drift
• formation
• research

• Department of Geology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, USA

  Alan E. M. Nairn, Francis G. Stehli

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