The South Atlantic: Volume 1

ISBN-13: 9781468430325 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 583 str.

Alan Nairn

Opis

Everyone working in a problem as complex as continental drift, must at some time have feit the need for an objective data summary in fields other than his own. It is a scientific dilemma that, aIthough there is evident need for researchers with competence in many fields (the classical natural scientist), the time in- volved in acquiring such broad experience is so great as to ren der the task largely impossible. The alternative seems to be the team approach, and we have espoused it in tbis volume. Editors and contributors alike have tried in this book to keep the accent upon factual information and to reduce interpretation to a minimum. Interpretation there must be, however, since without it science is but an inteHectual pastime comparable to pbilately. The librarian's need to classify results in the appearance of our names upon the spine oftbis volume, however, we would like to make it clear that the book has been a truly cooperative effort and could not have succeeded but for the active help of the individual contributors, whose assistance seldom was re- stricted to their chapters. Special thanks must be given to our South American coHeagues, for the tolerance with which they viewed out editorial attempts, and to Dr. E. Machens, for his careful review of the translation of his manu- script. We wish also to acknowledge the help of Dr. C. W.

Spis treści

1. A Model for the South Atlantic.- 2. Geology of the Amazon and Parnaiba Basins.- 3. The Brazilian Marginal Basins.- 4. The Geology of the Basins of the Argentine Continental Margin and Malvinas Plateau.- 5. The Scotia Arc and Antarctic Margin.- 6. The Evolution of the Paleozoic Cape Basin, Southern Margin of Africa.- 7. The Atlantic Margin of Southern Africa between Latitude 17° South and the Cape of Good Hope.- 8. The Equatorial Marginal Basins of West Africa.- 9. The Geology History of the Marginal Basins Along the North Shore of the Gulf of Guinea.- 10. Outline of Precambrian Chronology in Lands Bordering the South Atlantic, Exclusive of Brazil.- 11. The Precambrian Evolution of the South American Cratonic Margin South of the Amazon River.- 12. Orogeny and Reactivation of the West and Southeast of the West African Craton.- 13. Islands of the South Atlantic.- 14. The Age of the South Atlantic.