| Phanerozoic Paleocontinental World Maps Revised Edition Contributor(s): Smith, A. Gilbert (Author), Hurley, A. M. (Author), Briden, J. C. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0521232589 ISBN-13: 9780521232586 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $44.64 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 1981 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Science | Earth Sciences - General |
| Dewey: 912.155 |
| LCCN: 79-42669 |
| Series: Cambridge Earth Science Series |
| Physical Information: 0.22" H x 8.25" W x 11" (0.57 lbs) 106 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |