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PHANEROZOIC PALEOCONTINENTAL WORLD MAPS
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| By: |
Albert G. Smith, A. M. Hurley, J. C. Briden |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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| ISBN 10: |
0521232589 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780521232586 |
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| Publisher: |
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
27 August, 1981 |
| Series: |
Cambridge Earth Science Series |
| Pages: |
106 |
| Description: |
This 1980 book shows the positions of the major continental areas during the past 560 million years as four series of computer-drawn maps. |
| Synopsis: |
First published in 1980, this book shows the positions of the major continental areas during the past 560 million years as four series of computer-drawn maps. The maps have been drawn for the present day, 10 and 20 million years ago, then at 20-million-year intervals back to 240 million years, and finally at 40-million-year intervals to 560 million years ago. All the maps are based on quantitative geophysical or topographic information: paleomagnetic pole positions, ocean floor magnetic anomalies, and best fits of the continental margins. Cylindrical equidistant and Lambert equal-area polar projections are used, with a thirty-degree latitude-longitude grid. Many interesting problems in the Earth Sciences are global. These maps provide a framework on which a wide variety of data may be plotted. Problems in fields as widely separated as palenontology, stratigraphy, geochemistry and tectonics may usefully be displayed on these maps. |
| Illustrations: |
maps, bibliography |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Cambridge University Press |
| Returns: |
Returnable |