The restless Indian plate and its epic voyage from Gondwana to Asia : its tectonic, paleoclimatic, and paleobiogeographic evolution / by Sankar Chatterjee, Department of Geosciences, Museum of Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, Christopher R. Scotese, PALEOMAP Project, Evanston, Illinois, Sunil Bajpai, Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeosciences, Lucknow, India.
| Author/creator |
Chatterjee, Sankar author. |
| Other author/creator | Scotese, Christopher R., author. |
| Other author/creator | Bajpai, Sunil, author. |
| Other author/creator | Geological Society of America. |
| Format | Book and Print |
| Publication Info | Boulder, Colorado, USA : The Geological Society of America, 2017. |
| Description | iv, 147 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (chiefly color) ; 28 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/books/book/1864/The-Restless-Indian-Plate-and-Its-Epic-Voyage-from |
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| Series | Special paper ; 529 Special papers (Geological Society of America) 529. ^A20279 |
| Contents | Abstract -- Introduction -- Principles of paleoclimatology -- Principles of paleobiogeography -- Chronology of the tectonic evolution of the Indian plate -- Terrestrial tetrapod horizons in India -- The Permian period : the beginnings of Gondwana sedimentation -- The Triassic period : Pangean world -- The Jurassic period : time of the giants -- The Cretaceous period -- The Paleocene period -- The Paleocene-Eocene transition : initial collision with Asia -- The making of the Himalayan Mountains and the Tibetan Plateau -- Neogene Siwalik group -- Evolution of Indian summer monsoons -- Conclusions -- Acknowledgments -- References cited. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 137-147). |
| LCCN | 2017017590 |
| ISBN | 9780813725291 (paperback) |
| ISBN | 0813725291 (paperback) |
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| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions | |
| Joyner | General Stacks | QE511.4 .C41945 2017 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |