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The Ocean Basins and Margins

Volume 7A The Pacific Ocean

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  • © 1985

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Editors:
  1. Alan E. M. Nairn

    1. Earth Science and Resources Institute, University of South Carolina, Columbia, USA

  2. Francis G. Stehli

    1. College of Geosciences, University of Oklahoma, Norman, USA

  3. Seiya Uyeda

    1. Earthquake Research Institute, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. North Pacific Sediments

    • Floyd W. McCoy, Constance Sancetta
    Pages 1-64

  3. Mesozoic and Cenozoic Sedimentation in the Pacific Ocean Basin

    • Thomas A. Davies
    Pages 65-88

  4. Pacific Plate Motion Recorded by Linear Volcanic Chains

    • Robert A. Duncan, David A. Clague
    Pages 89-121

  5. Mid America: Tectonic Setting for the Pacific Margin from Southern Mexico to Northwestern Colombia

    • Gabriel Dengo
    Pages 123-180

  6. The Northern Andes: A Review of the Ecuadorian Pacific Margin

    • John W. Baldock
    Pages 181-217

  7. The Central Andes: Peru and Bolivia

    • Edwin John Cobbing
    Pages 219-264

  8. The Southern Andes

    • Luis Aguirre
    Pages 265-376

  9. The Sea of Okhotsk—Kuril Islands Ridge and Kuril—Kamchatka Trench

    • Helios S. Gnibidenko
    Pages 377-418

  10. Sea of Japan and Okinawa Trough

    • Kazuo Kobayashi
    Pages 419-458

  11. The Bonin Arc

    • E. Honza, K. Tamaki
    Pages 459-502

  12. Taiwan: Geology, Geophysics, and Marine Sediments

    • Biq Chingchang, C. T. Shyu, J. C. Chen, Sam Boggs Jr.
    Pages 503-550

  13. New Guinea and the Western Melanesian Arcs

    • John Milsom
    Pages 551-605

  14. Solomon Islands

    • Frank I. Coulson
    Pages 607-682

  15. The Vanuatu Island Arc: An Outline of the Stratigraphy, Structure, and Petrology

    • J. N. Carney, A. Macfarlane, D. I. J. Mallick
    Pages 683-718

  16. Back Matter

    Pages 719-733
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Editors and Affiliations

  • Earth Science and Resources Institute, University of South Carolina, Columbia, USA

    Alan E. M. Nairn

  • College of Geosciences, University of Oklahoma, Norman, USA

    Francis G. Stehli

  • Earthquake Research Institute, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

    Seiya Uyeda

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Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Ocean Basins and Margins

  • Book Subtitle: Volume 7A The Pacific Ocean

  • Editors: Alan E. M. Nairn, Francis G. Stehli, Seiya Uyeda

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-2351-8

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Plenum Press, New York 1985

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-306-37777-8Due: 31 December 1985

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4612-9440-5Published: 05 October 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4613-2351-8Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 733

  • Topics: Oceanography

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