Preface ....................................................... vii
Contributors to Volume 6 ....................................... xi
Editorial Advisory Board ..................................... xiii
Crust and Lithosphere Dynamics
6.01. An Overview ............................................... 1
A.B. Watts, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
6.02. Plate Tectonics .......................................... 49
P. Wessel, University of Hawaii at Mãnoa,
Honolulu, HI, USA
R.D. Müller, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW,
Australia
6.03. Plate Rheology and Mechanics ............................. 99
E.B. Burov, University of Paris, Paris, France
6.04. Plate Deformation ....................................... 153
R. Sabadini, University of Milan, Milan, Italy
6.05. Heat Flow and Thermal Structure of the Lithosphere ...... 217
C. Jaupart, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris
Paris, France
J.-C. Mareschal, GEOTOP-UQAM-McGill, Montreal, QC,
Canada
6.06. Lithosphere Stress and Deformation ...................... 253
M.L. Zoback, US Geological Survey, Menlo Park, CA,
USA
M. Zoback, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
6.07. Magmatism, Magma, and Magma Chambers .................... 275
B.D. Marsh, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore,
MD, USA
6.08. Dynamic Processes in Extensional and Compressional
Settings: The Dynamics of Continental Breakup and
Extension ............................................... 335
W.R. Buck, Columbia University, Palisades, NY, USA
6.09. Dynamic Processes in Extensional and Compressional
Settings - Mountain Building: From Earthquakes to
Geological Deformation .................................. 377
J.-P. Avouac, California Institute of Technology,
Pasadena, CA, USA
6.10. Fault Mechanics ......................................... 441
C.Н. Scholz, Columbia University, Palisades, NY,
USA
6.11. Tectonic Models for the Evolution of Sedimentary
Basins .................................................. 485
S. Cloetingh, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The
Netherlands
P.A. Ziegler, University of Basel, Basel,
Switzerland
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