Geology of Southwest Gondwana. ([2018])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Siegfried Siegesmund, Miguel A.S. Basei, Pedro Oyhantçabal, Sebastian Oriolo, editors.
• Editors: Siegesmund, Siegfried; Basei, Miguel Angelo Stipp; Oyhantçabal, Pedro; Oriolo, Sebastian
• Contents: Part I. Paleomagnetism, geophysics and Adamastor. 1. The assembly of Western Gondwana : reconstruction based on paleomagnetic data / Augusto E. Rapalini ; 2. An integrated geophysical and geological interpretation of the Southern African lithosphere / Branko Corner and Raymond J. Durrheim ; 3. The tectonic history of the Southern Adamastor Oceaqn based on a correlation of the Kaoko and Dom Feliciano Belts / Miguel Angelo Stipp Basei, Hartwig Ernest Frimmel, Mario da Costa Campos Neto, Carlos Eduardo Ganade de Araujo, Neivaldo Araujo de Castro, and Claudia Regina Passarelli -- Part II. Old continental landmasses. 4. The Río de la Plata Craton of Argentina and Uruguay / Pedro Ohyantçabal, Carlos A. Cingolani, Klaus Wemmer, and Siegfried Siegesmund ; 5. A geological and isotopic framework of Precambrian terrains in Western Central Africa : an introduction / Denis Thiéblemont, Yannick Callec, Max Fernandez-Alonso, and Frédéric Chène ; 6. The Kalahari Craton, Southern Africa : from Archean crustal evolution to Gondwana amalgamation / Sebastián Oriolo and Thomas Becker ; 7. The Nico Pérez Terrane of Uruguay and Southeastern Brazil / Pedro Oyhantçabal, Sebastián Oriolo, Ruy Paulo Philipp, Klaus Wemmer, and Siegfried Siegesmund ; 9. The Luis Alves asnd Curitiba Terranes : continental fragments in the Adamastor Ocean / Claudia Regina Passarelli, Miguel Angelo Stipp Basei, Oswaldo Siga Jr., and Ossama Mohamed Milah Harara ; 9. The geology and evolution of the Angolan Shield, Congo Craton / Hielke A. Jelsma, Steve McCourt, Samantha H. Perritt, and Richard A. Armstrong -- Part III. Neoproterozoic fold belts related to Western Gondwana Formation. 10. The tectonic evolution of the São Gabriel Terrane, Dom Feliciano Belt, Southern Brazil : the closure of the Charrua Ocean / Ruy Paulo Philipp, Marcio Martins Pimentel, and Miguel Angelo Stipp Basei ; 11. The Dom Feliciano Belt in Southern Brazil and Uruguay / Mathias Hueck, Pedro Oyhantçabal, Ruy Paulo Philipp, Miguel Angelo Stipp Basei, and Siegfried Siegesmund ; 12. The evolution of the Damara Orogenic System : a record of West Gondwana assembly and crustal response / Ben Goscombe, David A. Foster, David Gray, and Ben Wade ; 13. The Gariep Belt / Hartwig Ernest Frimmel ; 14. The stratigraphy and structure of the Western Saldania Belt, South Africa and geodynamic implications / Alexander Kisters and Richard Belcher ; 15. Suturing Gondwana in the Cambrian : the orogenic events of the final amalgamation / Renata da Silva Schmitt, Rafael de Araújo Fragoso, and Alan Stephen Collins ; 16. Untangling the Neoproterozoic-Early Paleozoic tectonic evolution of the Eastern Sierras Pampeanas hidden in the isotopical record / Mónica G. López de Luchi, Carmen I. Martínez Dopico, Klaus Wemmer, and Siegfried Siegesmund -- Part IV. Special topics. 17. The iron formations of Southern Africa / Albertus J. B. Smith ; 18. The iron formations of the South American platform / Carlos Alberto Rosière, Adriana Heimann, Pedro Oyhantçabal, and João Orestes Schneider Santos ; 19. The glaciations in South America / Daniel G. Poiré, Lucía E. Gómez Peral, and María J. Arrouy ; 20. The Ediacaran-Earlyh Cambrian fossil record in Southwest Gondwana / Claudio Gaucher ; 21. The provenance of selected Neoproterozoic to Lower Paleozoic Basin successions of Southwest Gondwana : a review and proposal for further research / Udo Zimmermann ; 22. Shear zones in Brasiliano-Pan-African belts and their role in the amalgamation and break-up of Southwest Gondwana / Sebastián Oriolo, Mathias Hueck, Pedro Oyhantçabal, ben Goscombe, Klaus Wemmer, and Siegfried Siegesmund ; 23. The African metallotects of Southwest Gondwana / Gregor Borg and Christoph Gauert ; 24. The impact record of Southwest Gondwana / Wolf Uwe Reimold, Natalia Hauser, and Alvaro P. Crósta.
• Publisher Details: Cham, Switzerland : Springer
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource (xxviii, 688 pages), color illustrations, color maps
• Subjects: 551.7/2; Earth sciences; Geology, Structural -- Gondwana (Continent); Historical geology -- Gondwana (Continent); Geochemistry -- Gondwana (Continent); SCIENCE -- Earth Sciences -- Geography; SCIENCE -- Earth Sciences -- Geology; Science -- Earth Sciences -- General; Science -- Geophysics; Geochemistry; Geophysics; Historical geology; Geology, Structural; Geochemistry; Physical geography; Geology; Geological surface processes (geomorphology); Gondwana (Continent); Gondwana (Continent); Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319689203; 3319689207
• Related ISBNs: 9783319689197; 3319689193
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed February 6, 2018).
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