Overview
- Presents new data on the geology and tectonics of Central, Northern, and Eastern Asia
- Exhibits unique geophysical data on the structure of sedimentary cover and the earth's crust of Asia
- Illustrates the tectonic model of Asia by the tectonic map of the region
- Shows the geodynamic evolution of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt from the Neoproterozoic to the Mesozoic
Part of the book series: Springer Geology (SPRINGERGEOL)
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About this book
The book provides the results of tectonic, geological and geophysical studies of Northern, Central and Eastern Asia obtained over the last 20 years, and a Tectonic map for this area overview as well as essays on its geodynamic evolution. These new results were obtained by an international team of specialists within the project “Atlas of geological maps of Central Asia and adjacent areas,” scale 1: 2,500,000, initiated in 2003 by geological surveys of Russia, China, Mongolia, Kazakhstan and South Korea under the auspices of the CGMW.
The most of the book contains the descriptions of the tectonic structure of major geological regions of Asia, such as the Ural, Sayan-Baikal and Tien Shan orogenic systems. The tectonic structure of the Pamirs, Turan Plate, Mongolia, Southern China, Korea and other regions is also discussed. The book contains maps of gravity and magnetic anomalies, sketch maps of deep structures of the area, and the geotransect crossing the most important geological structures of Asia. The final chapter of the book describes the tectonic evolution of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt from the Neoproterozoic to the Mesozoic.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Tectonics of Asia (Northern, Central and Eastern Asia)
Editors: Oleg V. Petrov, Shuwen Dong
Series Title: Springer Geology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-62001-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-62000-4Published: 04 March 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-62003-5Published: 05 March 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-62001-1Published: 03 March 2021
Series ISSN: 2197-9545
Series E-ISSN: 2197-9553
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: V, 262
Number of Illustrations: 10 b/w illustrations, 76 illustrations in colour
Topics: Earth Sciences, general