Orogenesis: The Making of Mountains: Acknowledgments
Preface 1. Major features of the Earth and plate tectonics 2. Driving mechanisms for plates, slab retreat and advance, a reason for orogenesis 3. Physical and chemical principles: rock deformation and heat production in the lithosphere 4. Large scale features of orogenic belts: thrusts, folds, orogenic wedges 5. Evolution of orogens 6. Lateral spreading of orogens: foreland propagation, channel flow and weak zones in the crust 7. Orogenic metamorphism 8. The erosion, uplift and exhumation of orogens 9. The sedimentary history of foreland basins 10. Deep structure: the support of mountains and the importance of phase changes 11. Mountains and climate 12. Precambrian orogenesis References Index.