Backarc Basins
Tectonics and Magmatism
Published on 11. November 2013
XXV, 524 pages
978-1-4615-1843-3 (ISBN)
Description
Experts in the field offer the first comprehensive review of the tectonics and magmatism of backarc basins, covering their initial rift stage to mature spreading. Complete with numerous illustrations, each of the twelve chapters focuses on a young, active backarc basin of the circum-Pacific-where volcano-tectonic processes are best studied because of their activity. Key themes in this volume include volcano-tectonics setting; cause and location; rift magmas; and hydrothermal activity. Researchers also present models of the dynamic processes occurring in backarc basins.
Reviews / Votes
`The book is loaded with new data and observations that collectivley provide important new insights into the subject.'Science
`This volume will be appreciated by a wide spectrum of the geological community....it provides a major source of reference for the key backarc systems of the modern ocean floor.'
Geological Magazine
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Content
1 Taupo Volcanic Zone and Central Volcanic Region: Backarc Structures of North Island, New Zealand.- 2 The Southern Havre Trough: Geological Structure and Magma Pedogenesis of an Active Backarc Rift Comple.- 3 The Geology of the Lau Basin.- 4 The North Fiji Basin: Geology, Structure, and Geodynamic Evolution.- 5 Tectonics, Magmatism, and Evolution of the New Hebrides Backarc Troughs (Southwest Pacific).- 6 Geology of the Mariana Trough.- 7 Tectonic Framework of the East Scotia Sea.- 8 Bransfield Strait, Antarctic Peninsula: Active Extension behind a Dead Arc.- 9 Structural and Kinematic Evolutions of the Okinawa Trough Backarc Basin.- 10 Shikoku Basin and Its Margins.- 11 Opening Tectonics of the Japan Sea.- 12 Kuril (South Okhotsk) Backarc Basin.- 13 Hydrothermal Activity Related to Arc-Backarc Magmatism in the Western Pacific.- 14 Tectonic and Magmatic Controls on Backarc Basin Sedimentation: The Mariana Region Reexamined.
