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Geokinematics

Prelude to Geodynamics

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Authors:
  1. Rex H. Pilger

    1. Landmark Graphics Corporation, Highland Ranch, USA

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  • New kinematic analysis tools including source code

  • Valuable database of paleostress measurements

  • Easily understood and documented ideas

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XI
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  2. Introduction

    • Rex H. Pilger
    Pages 1-8

  3. Proper Reference Frames: Hotspots, Paleomagnetism, Paleoclimate

    • Rex H. Pilger
    Pages 9-20

  4. Plate Kinematic and Reconstruction Fundamentals

    • Rex H. Pilger
    Pages 21-32

  5. Kinematic and Reconstruction Modeling with Continuously Varying Parameters

    • Rex H. Pilger
    Pages 33-41

  6. An Inverse Model

    • Rex H. Pilger
    Pages 43-47

  7. Hotspot Trace Patterns

    • Rex H. Pilger
    Pages 49-99

  8. Contemporary Stress Fields

    • Rex H. Pilger
    Pages 101-107

  9. Observed Paleostress Orientations and Predicted Plate-Hotspot Motions

    • Rex H. Pilger
    Pages 109-177

  10. Paleomagnetic Reference Frame

    • Rex H. Pilger
    Pages 179-192

  11. Back-Arc Spreading and Proper Motion

    • Rex H. Pilger
    Pages 193-199

  12. Hotspot Reference Frames: The “Necessity” of Mesoplates

    • Rex H. Pilger
    Pages 201-211

  13. Mesoplates and the Origin of Hotspots: A Top-Down Model

    • Rex H. Pilger
    Pages 213-223

  14. Fracture Reservoirs and Intraplate Stresses

    • Rex H. Pilger
    Pages 225-241

  15. Summary and Conclusion

    • Rex H. Pilger
    Pages 243-248

  16. Back Matter

    Pages 249-339
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About this book

There's something about introductory textbooks that can be fundamentally misleading. As I plowed through freshman Physical Geology some 36 years ago, I couldn't help but acquire the impression that all of the major problems in the earth sciences had been solved. Yes, there was a chapter about Wegener's conti­ nental drift hypothesis along with a few other ideas concerning earth evolution - expansion, contraction - and including Holmes' convection cell idea. Once I began to take the field trips and participate in junior-year field camp, I began to suspect that the textbooks had left something out. It didn't take long, however, to begin hearing about the "New Global Tectonics", at which point I felt that I had been misled by what I had encountered in my first formal contact with geology. All of a sudden it was clear that there was much more to geology and geophysics than a widely used book could convey. Plate Tectonics is now into its fifth decade. I haven't looked at current intro­ ductory textbooks, so I don't know whether they still convey the impression that all of the major problems in the earth sciences have been solved. Clearly, there is still much to do with continuing elaboration of plate tectonics, among all of the other challenges of the geosciences. This monograph introduces a number of new observations, techniques, and hypotheses as extensions to Plate Tectonics.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Landmark Graphics Corporation, Highland Ranch, USA

    Rex H. Pilger

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Geokinematics

  • Book Subtitle: Prelude to Geodynamics

  • Authors: Rex H. Pilger

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-07439-8

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2003

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-00548-3Published: 23 June 2003

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-05608-6Published: 30 November 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-662-07439-8Published: 14 March 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XI, 340

  • Topics: Historical Geology, Geophysics/Geodesy, Geology, Mineralogy, Oceanography

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