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Download or read book New Frontiers in Tectonic Research written by Evgenii Sharkov and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2011-07-27 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is devoted to different aspects of tectonic research. Syntheses of recent and earlier works, combined with new results and interpretations, are presented in this book for diverse tectonic settings. Most of the chapters include up-to-date material of detailed geological investigations, often combined with geophysical data, which can help understand more clearly the essence of mechanisms of different tectonic processes. Some chapters are dedicated to general problems of tectonics. Another block of chapters is devoted to sedimentary basins and special attention in this book is given to tectonic processes on active plate margins.