You can download Regional Geology and Tectonics ebook here.
- Title: Regional Geology and Tectonics: Principles of Geologic Analysis
- Author: David G. Roberts and A.W. Bally
- Publisher: Elsevier
- Pages: 865
The petroleum industry and academia are shifting from active knowledge transfer by earth scientists to passive data sharing through electronic media. Recent years have seen a decline in diverse experience in both industry and academia due to retirements and a focus on specific research areas.
Younger specialists, known as Nintendo geoscientists, are trained to solve practical problems through data interpretation at their workstations. In academia, a growing focus on earth systems science is diminishing the traditional geological foundation of scholarly research.
A clear and engaging book is needed to effectively explain regional geology to a diverse audience. Furthermore, the book will connect the evolution of selected areas to theoretical models. In planning this book, we aimed to use the best examples from recent, widely available industry seismic data.
The definition of the scope of Phanerozoic Regional Geology of the World specifies “regional scale.” A set of introductory chapters together with overviews that preface the major sections provide the reader with the basic principles allowing exploration of the book at various levels of detail.
The author does not concentrate on methods in the book. The introductory chapters offer brief overviews of methods for regional analysis, highlighting the importance and limitations of integration. They also summarize analogue and theoretical models, serving as a backdrop for structure and stratigraphy.
While seeking contributions for the introductory chapters, we struggled to obtain relevant content on theoretical models of rifting, passive margin evolution, and analogue models of extension for offshore deep-water exploration. We find this surprising as we had deemed these chapters to be essential.
Theoretical models may lack adequate support from integrated data sets on rifts and passive margins, despite McKenzie’s model being over 30 years old. Couldn’t include chapters on clastic sedimentation in rifts and carbonate platform evolution, as this information is mostly publicly available.
We had to find alternative contributors for some chapters, which, along with compiling the Global Maps, caused delays in completing the book. We sincerely apologize to all contributors for this inconvenience.