13. Subduction zones
Course Material
- Concept of geosyncline and sedimentary basins
- Sea floor spreading, oceanic ridges and trenches
- Continental rifts
- Intra-oceanic islands
- Hot spot and mantle plumes
- Continental drift and reconstruction
- Concept of plate tectonics
- Historical perspective
- Mechanism of plate tectonics
- Plates and plate boundaries
- Relative and absolute plate motions
- Extensional, compressional and transpressional tectonics
- 13. Subduction zones
- Transform and transcurrent faults
- Introduction to neo-tectonics and related hazards
- Application of geotectonic in natural resource explorations
- Chapters 16
- Department Earth Sciences
- Teacher
Dr. Syed Haroon Ali
