Table of Contents

1: Continental Drift--The Road to Plate Tectonics
2: Plate Tectonics Now and in the Past
n 3Creation, Destruction, and Changes in Volume of Continental Crust through Time
4: Growth of Cratons and Their Post-Stabilization Histories
5: Assembly of Continents and Establishment of Lower Crust and Upper Mantle
6: Assembly and Dispersal of Supercontinents
7: Supercontinents Older Than Gondwana
8: Gondwana and Pangea
9: Rifting of Pangea and Formation of Present Ocean Basins
10: History of Continents after Rifting from Pangea
11: Effects of Continents and Supercontinents on Climate
12: Effects of Continents and Supercontinents on Organic Evolution
Appendix A. Seismic Methods
Appendix B. Heat Flow and Thermal Gradients
Appendix C. Paleomagnetism
Appendix D. Isotopic Systems
Appendix E. Cratons
Appendix F. Anorogenic Magmatic Suites
Appendix G. Orogenic Belts of Grenville Age
Appendix H. Orogenic Belts of 2.1-1.3-Ga Age
Appendix I. Orogenic Belts of Pan-African-Brasiliano Age
References
Author Index
Subject Index

Reviews

"...this book provides a very thorough review of its subject matter, and will be accessible to those who have had an introduction to tectonics, petrology, and geochemistry."--Choice
"...this book provides a very thorough review of its subject matter, and will be accessible to those who have had an introduction to tectonics, petrology, and geochemistry."--Choice