Description: An Introduction to Our Dynamic Planet At last, an undergraduate textbook integrating the geophysics, geochemistry, and petrology of the Earth to explain plate tectonics and geodynamics. Nick Rogers (Author), Stephen Blake (Author), Kevin Burton (Author), Mike Widdowson (Author), Ian Parkinson (Author), Nigel Harris (Author) 9780521494243, The Open University Hardback, published 14 February 2008 398 pages 26.9 x 21.5 x 2.7 cm, 1.478 kg '… recommend[ed] … strongly for graduate students and geoscience teachers. Undergraduate students may use it successfully as a supplementary or advanced textbook. To read this book will also be very helpful for professionals.' Zentralblatt für Geologie und Paläontologie This is the first undergraduate textbook to fully integrate results from geophysics, geochemistry, and petrology to describe the structure, composition, and dynamic processes that operate throughout the solid Earth. It presents an Earth system science approach to studies of the Earth's interior and develops a global view of solid Earth cycles to explain geodynamic and plate tectonic processes. This book initially explores the formation and evolution of the early Earth, then considers the operative forces for plate tectonic movements at the Earth's surface, and finally discusses global cycles within the deep Earth and their effect on the surface environment. Interactions between the geosphere, hydrosphere, and atmosphere, and their influence at and beneath the Earth's surface are examined in detail. This textbook thus provides a concise yet extensive coverage of the solid Earth. Written for intermediate undergraduates, it includes a wealth of features to support student learning at this level. 1. An introduction to the structure and composition of the Earth 2. The earth Earth 3. Plate tectonics 4. Processes at constructive plate boundaries 5. Processes at destructive plate boundaries 6. Processes during continental collision 7. The deep mantle and global cycles 8. The continental crust Answers to questions Appendices Further reading Glossary Index. Subject Areas: Geochemistry [RBGK], Mineralogy & gems [PNV], Geophysics [PHVG]
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BIC Subject Area 1: Geochemistry [RBGK]
BIC Subject Area 2: Mineralogy & gems [PNV]
BIC Subject Area 3: Geophysics [PHVG]
Number of Pages: 398 Pages
Publication Name: An Introduction to Our Dynamic Planet
Language: English
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Item Height: 269 mm
Subject: Geology, Physics
Publication Year: 2008
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 1478 g
Author: Stephen Blake, Nigel Harris, Nick Rogers, Ian Parkinson, Mike Widdowson, Kevin Burton
Item Width: 215 mm
Format: Hardcover
