Major Impacts and Plate Tectonics: A Model for the Phanerzoic Evolution of the Earth's Lithosphere

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Neville Price

Major Impacts and Plate Tectonics

A Model for the Phanerzoic Evolution of the Earth's Lithosphere

Neville Price

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CRC Press
09 November 2000

Historical geology; Geochemistry

Neville Price presents a major breakthrough in our understanding of the subject of plate tectonics in this new book. In this ambitious look at the importance of impacts of objects from space on the earth, he challenges the fundamentals of the theory on which geoscience has rested for the past 25 years. In the latter half of the 20th century, earth-scientists gradually became aware of the scale and effect

of bombardment by meteoric material on Earth. Prior to 1950

only a handful of small craters were generally accepted as resulting from impact events. Now ""certain"" impacts number around 150, with four such features measuring over 100km in diameter.

Neville Price evaluates the mechanisms that give rise to plate movements. Generally, such plates move slowly at about the rate-of-growth of human nails and their tracks are

usually smooth, gentle curves . Major Impacts and Plate Tectonics presents evidence to show that impacts can cause significant and dramatic changes in track, which cannot be explained by current theories of plate tectonics. The book also demonstrates that such major impact events often coincide with the development of continental

flood basalts and oceanic plateau basalts and frequently coincide with major stratigraphic stage boundaries and toxicity, which in turn can be associated with periods of extinction. It concludes that geological history comprises periods of

relatively orderly, evolutionary change in Earth and life-forms punctuated by catastrophic changes induced by major impacts that reset the evolutionary clock.

By: Neville Price
Imprint: CRC Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 246mm, Width: 174mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 907g
ISBN: 9780415238991
ISBN 10: 0415238994
Pages: 368
Publication Date: 09 November 2000
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational , Undergraduate , Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Price, Neville