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Recent crustal movements / edited by N. Pavoni and R. Green

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Author:
International Symposium on Recent Crustal Movements (5th : 1974 : Zurich)  Search this
Commission on Recent Crustal Movements  Search this
Inter-Union Commission on Geodynamics  Search this
Editor:
Pavoni, Nazario  Search this
Green, R (Ronald)  Search this
Physical description:
xvi, 551 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Type:
Congresses
Conference papers and proceedings
Place:
Earth (Planet)
Date:
1975
Notes:
"Paper presented at the Fifth International Symposium on Recent Crustal Movements held in Zurich, Switzerland, from August 26-31, 1974."
"The symposium was organized in collaboration with the international Commission on Recent Crustal Movements (CRCM)--of the International Association of Geodesy (IAG) and the Inter-Union Commission on Geodynamics (ICG)."
"Reprinted from Tectonophysics Volume 29."
Also issued online.
Contents:
Present tectonic-plate motions from lunar ranging / P.L. Bender and E.C. Silverberg -- Very long baseline interferometry for centimeter accuracy geodetic measurements / R.J. Coates [and others] -- Precision electromagnetic distance-measuring instrument for determining secular strain and fault movement / G.R. Huggett and L.E. Slater -- Sources of error in the determination of in-situ stresses by measurements / H. Grob, K. Kovari and C. Amstad -- Deep in-situ stress measurements by hydrofracturing / B.C. Haimson -- Geotectonic relevance of rock-stress determinations / G. Ranalli -- Thermal runaway in the mantle and neotectonics / A. Rice and R.W. Fairbridge -- Active faults of Alaska / G.E. Brogan [and others] -- New data on plate tectonics of Alaska / D.R. Packer, G.E. Brogan and D.B. Stone -- Geodetic surveys for monitoring crustal movements in the United States / B.K. Meade -- Elevation changes in the central Transverse Ranges near Ventura, California / J.M. Buchanan-Banks, R.O. Castle and J.I. Ziony -- Vertical crustal movements preceding and accompanying the San Fernando earthquake of February 9, 1971 : a summary / R.O. Castle [and others] -- Determining earthquake recurrence intervals from deformational structures in young lacustrine sediments / J.D. Sims -- Recent movements and stress fields in the San Andreas fault system by the results of modelling / A.A. Nikonov, D.N. Osokina and N. Yu. Tsvetkova -- Recent activity of the Wasatch fault, northwestern Utah, U.S.A. / L.S. Cluff [and others] -- Possible evidence for contemporary doming of the Adirondack Mountains, New York, and suggested implications for regional tectonics and seismicity / Y.W. Isachsen -- Vertical crustal movements in Nova Scotia as determined from scattered geodetic relevellings / P. Vaníček -- Recent crustal movements in Costa Rica disclosed by relevelling surveys / S. Miyamura -- Geological and geodetic investigations on the movement along the Boconó fault, Venezuelan Andes / C. Schubert and H.G. Henneberg -- Palaeomagnetic evidence relating to the Cenozoic drift of Greenland / P.V. Sharma and R.N. Athavale -- Horizontal and vertical crustal movements in Iceland / K. Schäfer -- Present-day stress field and seismotectonic block movements along major fault zones in Central Europe / L. Ahorner -- Recent and paleo-intraplate tectonics in stable Europe and the Rhinegraben rift system / J.H. Illies -- In-situ stress measurements in southwest Germany / G. Greiner -- Geodetic measurements and recent crustal movements in the southern Upper Rhinegraben / H. Mälzer and H. Schlemmer -- Investigation of recent crustal movements across the Rhinegraben flexure at Basel / P. Bitterli-Brunner, L. Hauber and H. Fischer -- Summary of geodetic studies of recent crustal movements in Switzerland / F. Jeanrichard -- Actual and ancient uplift rate in the Gotthard region, Swiss Alps : a comparison between precise levelling and fission-track apatite age / J.P. Schaer, G.M. Reimer and G.A. Wagner -- In-situ stress measurements of the primary stress state in the Sonnenberg tunnel in Lucerne, Switzerland / M. Gysel -- Significance of stress measurements in the Hochkönig Massif in Austria / E. Brückl, K.H. Roch and A.E. Scheidegger -- Seismicity and uplift of southern Italy / G.E. Brogan, L.S. Cluff and C.L. Taylor -- Geodetic measurements made by Istituto Geografico Militare in the Strait of Messina area / P. Bencini -- Postglacial and recent crustal movements in the northeast of the Baltic shield / B.I. Koshechkin [and others] -- Report on the application of geodetic measurements to the determination of recent crustal movements in Finland / T. Honkasalo -- Recent crustal movements in the Bohemian Massif / P. Vyskočil -- Utilization of the analysis of ancient river beds for the detection of Holocene crustal movements / K. Mike -- Movement tendencies of the West Carpathians in the Quaternary / J. Kvitkovič -- Results of geodetic and geophysical investigations of recent crustal movements in the Soviet part of the eastern Carpathians / V.I. Somov and V.G. Kuznetsova -- Recent movements of the earth's crust in Poland : some new data / J. Liszkowski -- Studies of recent vertical crustal movements at the territories insufficiently provided with relevelling data / L.N. Bylinskaya [and others] -- Recent vertical crustal movements in the Ponto-Caspian orogenic region / N.S. Blagovolin, D.A. Lilienberg and S.V. Pobedonostsev -- Tectonic structures along the North Anatolian fault zone, northeast of Refahiye (Erzincan) / Y. Tatar -- Seismotectonic framework of the North Tehran fault / J.S. Tchalenko -- On horizontal deformations at faults recorded by extensometers / L.A. Latynina -- Regularities of the deformations of the earth's crust at the joint of the Pamirs and Tien-Shan / A.K. Pevnev [and others] -- Recent seismotectonic fault movements in the mountain regions of Middle Asia and their relation with earthquake magnitude / A.A. Nikonov -- In-situ stress measurements in southern Africa / N.C. Gay -- Recent crustal deformation in the Ethiopian rift valley / P.A. Mohr [and others] -- Geodetic measurements across part of the Afar depression, East Africa / C. Chabbert -- Recent crustal movements along the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden coasts in Afar (Ethiopia and T.F.A.I.) / H. Faure -- Gravity and temperature anomalies in the wake of drifting continents / H.-G. Kahle and D. Werner -- Epeirogenic studies in India with reference to recent vertical movements / L.N. Kailasam -- Crustal effects of a heavy offshore earthquake in eastern Hokkaido, Japan / N. Fujita, Y. Fujii and T. Tada -- Crustal strain from triangulation in Marlborough, New Zealand / H.M. Bibby -- Earth deformation studies in New Zealand / G.J. Lensen
Summary:
This special issue of Tectonophysics contains 55 papers presented at the Fifth International Symposium on Recent Crustal Movements, held in Zurich, Switzerland, from 26 to 31 August 1974.
Topic:
Earth movements  Search this
Planets--Crust  Search this
Crust  Search this
Call number:
QE511 .I615 1974
QE511.I615 1974
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
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