Continental Tectonics and Mountain Building

Continental Tectonics and Mountain Building
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Publisher : Geological Society of London
Total Pages : 886
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ISBN-10 : 1862393001
ISBN-13 : 9781862393004
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Book Synopsis Continental Tectonics and Mountain Building by : Richard D. Law

Download or read book Continental Tectonics and Mountain Building written by Richard D. Law and published by Geological Society of London. This book was released on 2010 with total page 886 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The thematic set of 32 papers in this Special Publication celebrate the 100th anniversary of the 1907 Memoir on The Geological Structure of the North-West Highlands of Scotland by placing the original findings in both historical and modern contexts, and juxtaposing them against present-day studies of deformation processes operating not only in the NW Highlands, but also in other mountain belts.


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