Dynamic Earth
Subtitle: Plates, Plumes and Mantle Convection
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: January 28, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 470
ISBN-13: 9780521590679
Subjects: Applied mathematics; Geophysics; Structure & properties of the Earth; Science; Plate Tectonics; Volcanology; Science/Mathematics; Earth Sciences - Geology; Environmental Engineering & Technology; Earth--Mantle; Science / Geology; Earth; Geodynamics; Mantle
First sentence: The purpose of this book is to present the principles of convection, to show how those principles apply in the peculiar conditions of the earth's mantle, and to present the most direct and robust inferences about mantle convection that can be drawn from observations.