The Tectonic Evolution of Asia
The Tectonic Evolution of Asia
Mark Harrison , University of California, Los Angeles
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The evolution of Asia has largely occurred over the last 400 million years, and continues today. Seeing a continent in the act of assembly provides a rare opportunity to study the processes by which continents are constructed and internally modified. This book is a collection of twenty-one contributions on the tectonic evolution of Asia. The book is divided into five parts: geodynamic models of the Cenozoic deformation in Asia, seismotectonics, geological evolution of the Himalaya–Karakoram Ranges, tectonics of the Cenozoic Indo–Asia collision, and Mesozoic–Paleozoic assembly of Asia. Several important problems are addressed in detail, including the origin of the Tibetan Plateau, the nature of ultra-high pressure metamorphism in east-central Asia, the accretion of microcontinents to Asia, and the accommodation mechanisms of the Indo-Asian collision. The Tectonic Evolution of Asia provides an authoritative description of our current understanding of Asian tectonics and continental growth for graduate students and researchers.
- A multidisciplinary approach to tectonics
- A study of the most enigmatic continent
- A historical review of Asian tectonics
- Of interest to petroleum companies with offices in China and Japan (Texaco, Shell, BP, Elf all do)
Reviews & endorsements
'This well referenced and excellently illustrated tome is an academic interchange of important geological results deserving a shelf in all major university libraries with geophysics facilities.' Irish Astronomical Journal
'In summary, much excellent work has been brought together in this book, and tectonicians and others working on Asia will greatly benefit from it.' Mark Allen, Geoscientist
Product details
September 1996Hardback
9780521480499
678 pages
287 × 223 × 39 mm
2.26kg
229 b/w illus. 15 colour illus. 27 tables
Unavailable - out of print July 1999
Table of Contents
- Introduction An Yin & Mark Harrison
- Part I. Geodynamic Models of the Cenozoic Deformation in Asia:
- 1. A lithospheric-thickening model for the Indo–Asia collision Gregory Houseman and Philip England
- 2. Neotectonics of Asia: Thin-shell finite-element models with faults X. Kong and P. Bird
- Part II. Seismotectonics:
- 3. Seismotectonics of Asia: Some recent progress Wang-Ping Chen and Honn Fao
- 4. Seismicity and active tectonics of the western Sunda Arc Marco Guzman-Speziale and James F. Ni
- 5. Tomography and seismic anisotropy of Asia and present and past tectonics Paul M. Davis
- Part III. Geological Evolution of the Himalaya–Karakoram Ranges:
- 6. The Himalayan evolution Patrick Le Fort
- 7. Cooling history, erosion, exhumation and kinematics of the Himalaya–Karakoram–Tibet orogenic belt M. P. Searle
- 8. Assembly of the crystalline terranes of northwestern Himalaya and Karakoram, northwestern Pakistan C. Page Chamberlain and Peter Zietler
- 9. The Himalayan foreland basin Douglas W. Burbank, Richard Beck and Thomas Mulder
- Part IV. Tectonics of the Cenozoic Indo–Asia Collision:
- 10. Cenozoic tectonics and block rotations in the Tadjik depression, central Asia J. C. Thomas, P. R. Cobbold, A. Wright and D. Gapais
- 11. Diachronous initiation of transtension along the Ailao Shan–Red River Shear zone, Yunnan (China) and Vietnam T. M. Harrison, P. H. Leloup, F. J. Ryerson, Paul Tapponnier, R. Lacassin and Chen Wenji
- 12. Cenozoic deformation, rotation, and stress patterns in eastern Tibet and western Sichuan, China Lothar Ratschbacher, Wolfgang Frisch, Chen Chengsheng and Guitang Pan
- Part V. Mesozoic–Paleozoic Assembly of Asia:
- 13. Mesozoic deformation and plutonism in the Yunmang Shan: A Chinese metamorphic core complex north of Beijing, China Gregory Davis, Qian Xiangling, Zheng Yadong, Tong Heng Mao, Yu Hao, Wang Cong, George Gehrels, Muhammad Shafiquallah and Joan E. Fryxell
- 14. Songpan–Ganz complex of the west Qinling Shan as a Triassic remnant ocean basin fill trapped during the Mesozoic tectonic amalgamation of China Da Zhou and Stephan Graham
- 15. Metamorphism and tectonics of high-pressure and ultra-high-pressure belts in the Dabie–Sulu region, eastern China J. G. Liou, R. Y. Zhang, X. Wang, E. A. Eide, W. G. Ernst and S. Maruyama
- 16. The Qinling–Dabie ultra-high-pressure collisional orogen B. R. Hacker
- 17. Mesozoic assembly of Asia: constraints from fossil floras, tectonics, and paleomagnetism Alfred Ziegler, Peter Rees, David Rowley, Andrey Bekker, Li Qing and Michael Hulver
- 18. Mesozoic inversive wrench tectonics in the Far East: examples from Korea and Japan Shigeru Otoh and Shuichi Yanai
- 19. Paleo- and neo-tethyan events in northwestern Turkey: geologic and geochronologic constraints A. I. Okay, M. Satir, H. Maluski, M. Siyako, P. Monie, R. Metzger and S. Akyuz
- 20. A Phanerozoic palinspastic reconstruction of China An Yin and Shangyou Nie
- 21. Paleotectonics of Asia: fragments of a synthesis A. M. Sengor and Boris Natal'in.
