書目名稱 | Geology of Afar (East Africa) | 編輯 | Jacques Varet | 視頻video | http://file.papertrans.cn/384/383384/383384.mp4 | 概述 | Comprehensive Review on the Geology and Tectonics of the Afar Triangle.Includes information on economic and political issues in the adjacent African countries in the Afar region.Includes a chapter on | 叢書名稱 | Regional Geology Reviews | 圖書封面 |  | 描述 | .This book summarizes the geological knowledge accumulated on Afar in the last 60 years,?demonstrating that?it?is, and will remain, a real “hot spot” for geological and geophysical research.?It provides?insights into?the?Earth processes along diverging plate boundaries,?the?study of both?the?continental and oceanic lithosphere and. underlying asthenosphere, and margins and transitions including magmatic, volcanic, tectonic, sedimentary, hydrothermal and geodynamic processes..The Afar triangle is a geological depression that developed where the Gulf of Aden, Red Sea and East African Rift Valley meet. It is?considered?to be?one of the?Earth system’s?most important mantle plumes. In 1967, when the first expedition was organized,?there was little?information on the geology of the area, and even geographic base maps were lacking.?However,?the first satellite photographs?from the Apollo and Gemini space missions?offered?a?complete picture of the Red Sea-Gulf of Aden region, providing a new vision of the Afar triangle..The book describes?the unique geological?features?that?make?Afar?the only place in the world where an oceanic plate boundary?with all its successive steps?of development ca | 出版日期 | Book 2018 | 關鍵詞 | Afar Region; Afar Triangle; Cradle of Humankind; East African Rift Zone; Tectonics of Africa; structural | 版次 | 1 | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60865-5 | isbn_softcover | 978-3-319-86946-9 | isbn_ebook | 978-3-319-60865-5Series ISSN 2364-6438 Series E-ISSN 2364-6446 | issn_series | 2364-6438 | copyright | Springer International Publishing AG 2018 |
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