Backarc Basins

Tectonics and Magmatism
1995
ISBN: 978-0-306-44937-6
Verlag: Springer US

Buch, Englisch, 524 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 1101 g

Experts in the field offer the comprehensive review of the tectonics and magmatism of backarc basins, covering their initial rift stage to mature spreading. Complete with numerous illustrations, each of the twelve chapters focuses on a young, active backarc basin of the circum-Pacific-where volcano-tectonic processes are best studied because of their activity. Key themes in this volume include volcano-tectonics setting; cause and location; rift magmas; and hydrothermal activity. Researchers also present models of the dynamic processes occurring in backarc basins.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Taylor, Brian

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geologie Geologie
• Geowissenschaften Geologie Marine Geologie, Ozeanographie (Meereskunde)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1 Taupo Volcanic Zone and Central Volcanic Region: Backarc Structures of North Island, New Zealand.- 2 The Southern Havre Trough: Geological Structure and Magma Pedogenesis of an Active Backarc Rift Comple.- 3 The Geology of the Lau Basin.- 4 The North Fiji Basin: Geology, Structure, and Geodynamic Evolution.- 5 Tectonics, Magmatism, and Evolution of the New Hebrides Backarc Troughs (Southwest Pacific).- 6 Geology of the Mariana Trough.- 7 Tectonic Framework of the East Scotia Sea.- 8 Bransfield Strait, Antarctic Peninsula: Active Extension behind a Dead Arc.- 9 Structural and Kinematic Evolutions of the Okinawa Trough Backarc Basin.- 10 Shikoku Basin and Its Margins.- 11 Opening Tectonics of the Japan Sea.- 12 Kuril (South Okhotsk) Backarc Basin.- 13 Hydrothermal Activity Related to Arc-Backarc Magmatism in the Western Pacific.- 14 Tectonic and Magmatic Controls on Backarc Basin Sedimentation: The Mariana Region Reexamined.