Plate Tectonics: Continental Drift and Mountain Building by Wolfgang Frisch, Martin Meschede, Ronald C. Blakey

Plate Tectonics: Continental Drift and Mountain Building Wolfgang Frisch, Martin Meschede, Ronald C. Blakey ebook
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ISBN: 3540765034, 9783540765035
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When two continental crustal plates collide, the compressional deformation usually crumples the rock in the collision zone to produce a mountain range. Plate Tectonics: Continental Drift and Mountain Building Wolfgang Frisch, Martin Meschede, Ronald C. Pangaea Plate tectonicists believe all the earth's continents But in a silly attempt to deny the Biblical Creation account, secular scientists would have us believe mountains are created when tectonic plates collide. Today that persuasion has been reversed—plate tectonics, incorporating continental drift, is the ruling perspective. Plate tectonics works hand in hand with several other striking concepts and discoveries, including continental drift and the many changes in Earth's magnetic field that have taken place over its history. What caused such a dramatic about-face? It was eventually rejected, tossed onto the scrapheap of other failed scientific theories like alchemical transmutation, in the late 1950's in favor of plate tectonics, which also teaches that the continents drift. No wonder, then, that this idea, developed in the 1960s but Tectonism is the deformation of the lithosphere, and the term tectonics refers to the study of this deformation, including its causes and effects, most notably mountain building. Blakey English | 2010-12-22 | ISBN: 3540765034 | 217 pages | PDF | 119 mb Plate Tectoni. Plate tectonics, the geologic process responsible for creating the Earth's continents, mountain ranges, and ocean basins, may be an on-again, off-again affair. For example, the Indian-Australian Plate has collided with the Eurasian Plate to form the Himalayas.