Mantle Convection
Subtitle: Plate Tectonics and Global Dynamics (Fluid Mechanics of Astrophysics and Geophysics Series, Vol 4)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Routledge
Published: January 1, 1989
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 896
ISBN-13: 9780677221205
Subjects: Geological surface processes (geomorphology); Geophysics; Structure & properties of the Earth; Science/Mathematics; Plate Tectonics; Science; Earth Sciences - Geology; Environmental Science; Science / Environmental Science; Earth; Mantle
First sentence: The revolution in the Earth sciences which began in earnest during the decade of the 1960s was based upon the increasingly widespread acceptance of the idea of continental drift-that is the notion that continental masses have suffered large horizontal displacements with respect to one another throughout geological time.