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| Foreword | |
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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Preview of the orbital perspective: the million-year day | |
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| Introduction | |
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| A digital tectonic activity map of the Earth | |
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| Sea-surface satellite altimetry | |
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| Satellite measurement of plate motion and deformation | |
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| Satellite remote sensing | |
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| Satellite magnetic surveys | |
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| Origin and significance of the digital tectonic activity map | |
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| Space geodesy | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Space geodesy methods | |
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| Shape of the Earth | |
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| Gravity anomalies and global tectonics | |
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| Marine gravity and ocean-floor topography | |
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| Plate motion and deformation | |
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| Plate tectonics and continental drift | |
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| GPS measurements of crustal deformation | |
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| Earth rotation and expansion tectonics | |
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| Extraterrestrial gravity fields | |
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| Gravity field of the Moon | |
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| Gravity field of Mars | |
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| Gravity field of Venus | |
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| Summary | |
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| Satellite studies of geomagnetism | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Satellite investigations of the Earth's magnetic field | |
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| The main field | |
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| The crustal field | |
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| Extraterrestrial magnetic fields | |
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| Summary | |
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| Remote sensing: the view from space | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Orbital remote sensing in geology: a brief history | |
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| Tectonics and structural geology | |
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| Global tectonic activity map | |
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| Tectonics of southern Asia | |
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| Elsinore Fault | |
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| Lineament tectonics | |
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| Exploration geology | |
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| Petroleum exploration | |
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| Mineral exploration | |
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| Environmental geology | |
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| Active volcanism | |
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| Glacial geology | |
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| Aeolian geology and desertification | |
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| Summary | |
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| Impact cratering and terrestrial geology | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Hypervelocity impact | |
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| Impact craters | |
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| Cratering studies and the space age | |
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| Origin of continents | |
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| Origin of ocean basins | |
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| Economic importance of terrestrial impact structures | |
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| Origin of the Sudbury Structure | |
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| Impacts and basaltic magmatism | |
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| Impacts and mass extinctions | |
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| Summary | |
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| Comparative planetology and the origin of continental crust | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Origin of the continental crust | |
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| Previous studies | |
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| Crustal province boundaries: are they sutures? | |
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| Ensialic greenstone belts | |
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| Terrane accretion vs. reworking | |
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| Thermal histories of planets | |
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| Crustal evolution in silicate planets | |
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| First differentiation | |
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| Late heavy bombardment | |
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| Second differentiation | |
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| Summary | |
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| A model of continental crust | |
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| Evolution of the continental crust | |
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| Stage I: first differentiation | |
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| Stage II: second differentiation | |
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| Petrologic evolution of the Earth | |
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| Geology and biology: the influence of life on terrestrial geology | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Gaia | |
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| The geologic role of water | |
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| Gaia and geology | |
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| A biogenic theory of tectonic evolution | |
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| Summary | |
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| Afterword | |
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| Essentials of physical geology | |
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| Lunar missions, 1958 to 1994 | |
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| Planetary missions, 1961 to 1992 | |
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| Glossary of geologic terms | |
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| Selected bibliography (by chapter) | |
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| Index | |