Volcanic Processes
Subtitle: Mechanisms in Material Transport
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Springer
Published: October 30, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 620
ISBN-13: 9780306466250
Subjects: Vulcanology & seismology; Fluid Mechanics; Volcanology; Science; Science/Mathematics; Earth Sciences - Seismology & Volcanism; Geophysics; Science / Geophysics; Earth Sciences - Geology; Mechanics - General; Transport theory; Volcanism
First sentence: This is what the clergyman Thomas Dick from Scotland wrote 37 years before the German scientist Alfred Wegener (1880-1930) proposed in 1912 that the Earth's land masses had once been joined together into a supercontinent (Hallam, 1975).