OROGENIC STYLE, SEA LEVEL, Sr ISOTOPES AND A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE EARTH FOR THE LAST 600 MILLION YEARS
A. M. C. Sengör
Istanbul Technical University, Faculty of Mines, Department of Geology and The Eurasian Institute
of Earth Sciences, Ayazaga, 37469, Istanbul, Turkey
Keywords: Orogeny, sea level fluctuations, climatic variations, Phanerozoic
Pages: 21-31
Subsection: TECTONICS, GEODYNAMICS, AND PALEOCLIMATE
Abstract
Turkic-type orogeny, a kind of collisional orogeny involving the growth and eventual apposition of very large subduction-accretion prisms, commonly but not necessarily with significant net crustal growth, leads to rising sea level, low 87Sr/86Sr ratio in seawater and an equable, generally ice-cap free
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