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Miller, J.A., Holdsworth, R.E., Buick, I.S. and Hand, M. (Eds) Continental Reactivation and Reworking.

London (Geological Society of London, Special Publication 184). 2001, Hardback, iii + 450 pp. Price £85.00 (US$142.00), ISBN 1 86239 080 0.

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For most people working in Archaean and Proterozoic terrains, polyphase deformation and metamorphism is an accepted difficulty when attempting to understand the evolution of any basement region. Reworking of large blocks of crust is accomplished during these events and so has an important place in the eventual stabilization of continental areas. This type of large-scale reworking is a common phenomenon in all younger orogenic belts where segments of earlier crust became incorporated. In this volume, reactivation is distinguished from reworking by being defined as the rejuvenation of discrete structures, for example faults and shears zones. Reactivation often produces a major change in crustal level of a block or causes its large-scale lateral displacement. This volume comprises eighteen chapters, the majority of which discuss reworking. It attempts a synthesis of both styles of deformation and to explore the possibility of a continuum between them. The volume is built round a number of papers concerning the Proterozoic evolution of central Australia, one of the places that have had a long history of reworking, and so forms the linking theme.

This book follows the generally tried and tested template for the series with a general introduction followed by a series of papers on the theory and mechanisms of reactivation. Four theory papers start . . . [Full Text of this Article]