Pacific Geology

Nature ◽  
1965 ◽  
Vol 208 (5007) ◽  
pp. 215-215
Author(s):  
A. S. LAUGHTON
Keyword(s):  
Pacific Geology

Tectonics of South China: Key to understanding West Pacific geology

1990 ◽  
Vol 183 (1-4) ◽  
pp. 9-39 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenneth J Hsü ◽  
Jiliang Li ◽  
Haihong Chen ◽  
Qingchen Wang ◽  
Shu Sun ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
South China ◽  
West Pacific ◽  
Pacific Geology

North Pacific Geology and Metallogenesis problems: NEISRI FEB RAS and international scientific joint researches (1960-2010)

2010 ◽  
Vol 2 (11) ◽  
pp. 1-21
Author(s):  
M. L. Gelman ◽  
V. V. Akinin ◽  
A. S. Biakov ◽  
O. Yu. Glushkova ◽  
N. A. Goryachev ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
North Pacific ◽  
Pacific Geology

Mehetia Island, South Pacific: geology and petrology of the emerged part of the Society hot spot

1993 ◽  
Vol 55 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 239-260 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. Binard ◽  
R.C. Maury ◽  
G. Guille ◽  
J. Talandier ◽  
P.Y. Gillot ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Hot Spot ◽  
South Pacific ◽  
Pacific Geology

On Coral Reefs, Volcanoes, Gods, and Patriotic Geology; Or, James Dwight Dana Assembles the Pacific Basin

2010 ◽  
Vol 79 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-49 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Igler
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Coral Reefs ◽  
The United States ◽  
Ocean Basin ◽  
Pacific Basin ◽  
Holistic View ◽  
Pacific Geology ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Innovative Work ◽  
The U.S

While dozens of naturalists had examined discrete Pacific environments prior to the 1830s, the American geologist James Dwight Dana was the first to hypothesize the underlying forces that created and unified this vast ocean basin as a whole. During his four-year journey with the U.S. Exploring Expedition (1838––1842), Dana developed a holistic view of geological systems throughout the Pacific, including those continental lands soon claimed by the United States as its Far West. But Dana's innovative work on Pacific geology and his extra-continental reading of the Far West changed in the 1850s. Like other American explorer-geologists who found cause for reifying a continental geology, Dana's work lost sight of the Pacific Basin and instead focused on the exceptional and spiritually preordained structure of American landforms.

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