This volume on continental margin sedimentation brings together an expert editorial and contributor team to create a state-of-the-art resource. Taking a global

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The continental margins of the world constitute the most impressive and largest physiographic feature of the earth's surface, and one of fundamentally great geo

This textbook explains how mountains are formed and why there are old and young mountains. It provides a reconstruction of the Earths paleogeography and shows w