Inversion Tectonics

M. A. Cooper and G. D. Williams (editors), Inversion Tectonics. Geological Society Special Publication No. 44. Published for The Geological Society by Blackwell Scientific Publications, Oxford, 1989. ISBN 9780632025022. Hardcover with original red glazed boards.Proceedings of the Inversion Tectonics Meeting held at the Royal Society in March 1987, covering modelling and theoretical concepts of inversion, the Alps and Alpine foreland, the European continental shelf, and other environments from the Wessex Basin and Danish Central Graben to the southern North Sea, Devonian basins of Northern Scotland and East African rift basins. Contains the publisher's large sealed folding figure sheets as issued.Book grade: Good. Scuffing and small white marks to the front and back boards; rubbing and light fraying to the spine ends; bumped, rubbed corners. Binding square and sound with all pages firm. Interior clean, no foxing, highlighting or marginalia; a former owner's initials in pen on the front endpaper and two small marks in the endpaper gutter, both photographed. One of the sealed foldout figures has a piece torn from its edge, roughly 4 by 1 inch, with creasing along the folds, shown in the photographs.Search terms: inversion tectonics, structural geology, basin inversion, Geological Society Special Publication, Cooper, Williams, Alpine foreland, North Sea, 1989.…