PLATE TECTONICS AND CRUSTAL EVOLUTION

By OLIVIA ROBINSON

CONTENTS CHAPTER COSMOGENIC NUCLIDES AND GEOMORPHOLOGY: THEORY, LIMITATIONS, AND APPLICATIONS CHAPTER FLOOD RISK AND LANDFORM OF CAMBODIAN MEKONG DELTA WHY ARE ROCK GLACIERS MORE OR LESS PROMINENT IN HIGH MOUNTAINS? ON SHAKY GROUND: ARCTIC COMMUNITIES IN UNEASY TRANSITION TO A NEW CLIMATIC ORDER GEOMORPHIC ADJUSTMENT, GEOGRAPHIC CONTEXT, AND DISTURBANCES EROSION AND SEDIMENT YIELD ESTIMATED BY GEOWEPP FOR CHECK DAM WATERSHEDS IN EPHEMERAL GULLIES (SOUTH-EAST SPAIN) MODELLING THE POTENTIAL IMPACT OF GROUNDWATER DYNAMICS ON GULLY EROSION AND DRAINAGE BASIN EVOLUTION PALEOMAGNETIC EVIDENCE FOR SIBERIAN PLATE TECTONICS FROM RODINIA THROUGH PANGAEA TO EURASIA GEODYNAMICS OF INDIAN FREE-BOARD: ARCHEAN-PROTEROZOIC COLLISION ZONES AND UNDERLYING LITHOSPHERE AND ITS RAPID DRIFT NATURE OF PERMIAN FAUNAS IN WESTERN NORTH AMERICA: A KEY TO THE UNDERSTANDING OF THE HISTORY OF ALLOCHTHONOUS TERRANES GEODYNAMIC EVOLUTION OF THE NORTH AFRICAN ATLASIC BELT SHORT COMMUNICATIONS A 3D MORPHOLOGY OF PHASE MICROSCOPIC OBJECTS BY THE DIGITAL HOLOGRAPHIC INTERFERENCE MICROSCOPY METHOD B TECTONIC CONTROL ON THE EVOLUTION OF THE MIDDLE TRIASSIC PLATFORMS IN THE ALPINE-CARPATHIAN-DINARIC REGION (DIFFERENCES IN THE EVOLUTION OF TWO OPPOSITE SHELVES OF THE NEOTETHYS OCEAN) C MORPHOSTRUCTURE PECULIARITIES OF PAY ZONES AT THE CONTINENTAL MARGINS OF THE NORTH-WEST AUSTRALIA