author: wolfgang frisch

Plate Tectonics: Continental Drift and Mountain Building

... tps://igppweb.ucsd.edu/~shearer/mahi/SEDI/main/images/Tomo_ earth.jpg) . Fig. 2.21 Maps showing deviations of velocities of the seis- mic primary waves (P–waves) from a normal value in horizon- tal cuts through the upper mantle. Upper ...

Plate Tectonics: Continental Drift and Mountain Building

Frisch and Meschede and Blakey answer all these questions and more through the presentation and explanation of the geodynamic processes upon which the theory of continental drift is based and which have led to the concept of plate tectonics ...

Plate Tectonics: Continental Drift and Mountain Building

... data supported a firm base on which to build the theory of plate tectonics and geologists had a single unifying model, which as it developed in the following years, could unify all basic geological and geophysical phenomena. The vast ...

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