Appalachian Tectonics / / ed. by Thomas Clark.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
• MitwirkendeR: Argun-Weston, A.,; Baird, D. M.,; Béland, J.,; Cady, Wallace M.,; Clark, Thomas H.,; Gumming, L. M.,; Hubert, Claude,; Innes, M. J. S.,; Osborne, F. Fitz,; Skidmore, W. B.,; Smith, W. E. T.,; St-Julien, Pierre,; Tuke, M. F.,; Wilson, J. T.,
• HerausgeberIn: Clark, Thomas,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2017]; ©1967
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: Heritage
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (112 p.)

Mountain ranges are the most conspicuous elements of the earth's architecture, and the manner in which the architectural units are arranged or disarranged has become the study of a subdivision of geology known as Tectonics. A hundred years ago James Hall attempted the first scientific synthesis...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Preface
• Contents
• Contributors
• Klippen in Northern Newfoundland
• Platform and Klippe Tectonics of Western Newfoundland: A Review
• The Appalachian Region of Québec: Some Aspects of its Divisions and Geology
• The Taconic Unconformity in the Gaspé Peninsula and Neighbouring Regions
• Tectonics of Part of the Sillery Formation in the Chaudiere-Matapedia Segment of the Québec Appalachians
• Tectonics of Part of the Appalachian Region of Southeastern Québec (Southwest of the Chaudière River)
• Contributions from Systematic Studies of Minor Structures in the Southern Québec Appalachians
• Geosynclinal Setting of the Appalachian Mountains in Southeastern Quebec and Northwestern New England
• Gravity Measurements in Appalachia and their Structural Implications
• Some Geological and Tectonic Considerations of Eastern Canadian Earthquakes
• Some Implications of New Ideas on Ocean-Floor Spreading upon the Geology of the Appalachians