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- This
reference work pictures a revised
kinematic reconstruction of the Tethyan
plates and microplates from the
mid-Permian times to the late Miocene,
spanning some 260 millions years, with a
paleolatitudes grid drawn on each
map.
- The main
highlights of this documents are
:
- - An
updated pre-breakup map of the
Pangea.
- - The
geodynamic setting: spreading axis,
subduction zones, island arcs, continental
paleopositions, ...
- - The
environmental characteristics (15 types)
covering deep ocean, platforms, subserial
areas;
- - The
facies (18 categories) which are figured,
when appropriate (field or bore-hole
data), as superimposed patterns. As a
result, facts are clearly separated from
hypotheses. Economic mineral are also
indicated (coal, phosphate, bauxite,
gold).
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- This
document is the product of the coordinated
efforts of 120 academic geologists from a
number of countries and institutes. Field
researches and correlative analyses have
been specially carried out on crucial
areas (Guatemala, Venezuela, Morocco,
Tunisia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria,
Turkey, Caucasus, Georgia, Thailand and
Indonesia); British
Petroleum, Elf Aquitaine, Total, Shell,
the Institut Français du
Pétrole, IFREMER, the French
Geological Survey (BRGM), the Centre
National de la Recherche Scientifique and
Pierre and Marie Curie University (Paris)
sponsored this five-year
programme.
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- The
editors :
- Pr. Jean
DERCOURT
- Pierre
and Marie Curie University (Paris). Member
of the French Academy of Sciences,
Vice-President of Academia Europea,
President of the Commission for the
Geological Map of the World. Born in 1935;
field geologist with experience in Eastern
Mediterranean and Western Canada. Involved
in paleogeography since 1970.
- Dr.
Luc-Emmanuel RICOU
- Director
of research in the French National
Scientific Research Centre (CNRS) at the
Pierre & Marie Curie University
(Paris). Editor of Geodynamica Acta
(Masson, Paris). Born in 1938; field
geologist; his research concentrates on
tectonics in the Middle East and Eastern
Europe.
- Bruno
VRIELYNCK
- Researcher
at the CNRS and Pierre & Marie Curie
University (Paris). Born in 1951; field
geologist and paleontologist, specialist
in conodonts. Has been involved in
paleontologic, stratigraphic and
paleoenvironmental digitalization
programmes since 1987.
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