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020			_a9789533075945
024	7		_a10.5772/1766 _cdoi
041	0		_aEnglish
042			_adc
100	1		_aUri Schattner _4auth
245	1	0	_aNew Frontiers in Tectonic Research - At the Midst of Plate Convergence
260			_bIntechOpen _c2011
300			_a1 electronic resource (366 p.)
506	0		_aOpen Access _2star _fUnrestricted online access
520			_aOcean closure involves a variety of converging tectonic processes that reshape shrinking basins, their adjacent margins and the entire earth underneath. Following continental breakup, margin formation and sediment accumulation, tectonics normally relaxes and the margins become passive for millions of years. However, when final convergence is at the gate, the passive days of any ocean and its margins are over or soon will be. The fate of the Mediterranean and Persian Gulf is seemingly known beforehand, as they are nestled in the midst of Africa-Arabia plate convergence with Eurasia. Over millions of years through the Cenozoic era they progressively shriveled, leaving only a glimpse of the Tethys Ocean. Eventually, the basins will adhere to the Alpine-Himalaya orogen and dissipate. This book focuses on a unique stage in the ocean closure process, when significant convergence already induced major deformations, yet the inter-plate basins and margins still record the geological history.
540			_aAll rights reserved _4http://oapen.org/content/about-rights
546			_aEnglish
653			_aPhysical Sciences
653			_aEngineering and Technology
653			_aEarth and Planetary Sciences
653			_aGeodynamics
653			_aGeology and Geophysics
856	4	0	_awww.oapen.org _uhttps://www.intechopen.com/books/new-frontiers-in-tectonic-research-at-the-midst-of-plate-convergence _70 _zDOAB: download the publication
856	4	0	_awww.oapen.org _uhttps://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/54576 _70 _zDOAB: description of the publication
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