Mantle convection in the earth and planets / Gerald Schubert, Donald L. Turcotte, Peter Olson.
Material type: TextPublication details: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001.Description: 1 online resource (xv, 940 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps (some color)Content type:- text
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- 0511017863
- 9780511017865
- 9780511612879
- 0511612877
- 9780511052415
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- 0511154623
- 9780511154621
- 052135367X
- 9780521353670
- Earth (Planet) -- Mantle
- Heat -- Convection
- Geodynamics
- Chaleur -- Convection
- Géodynamique
- Terre -- Manteau
- SCIENCE -- Earth Sciences -- Geography
- SCIENCE -- Earth Sciences -- Geology
- Planets -- Mantles
- Geodynamics
- Heat -- Convection
- Earth (Planet)
- Wärmeleitung
- Erdmantel
- Planeteninneres
- Terre -- Manteau
- Chaleur -- Convection
- Géodynamique
- 551.1/16 21
- QE509.4 .S38 2001eb
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 797-873) and index.
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1. Historical Background -- 2. Plate Tectonics -- 3. Structure and Composition of the Mantle -- 4. Mantle Temperatures and Thermodynamic Properties -- 5. Viscosity of the Mantle -- 6. Basic Equations -- 7. Linear Stability -- 8. Approximate Solutions -- 9. Calculations of Convection in Two Dimensions -- 10. Numerical Models of Three-dimensional Convection -- 11. Hot Spots and Mantle Plumes -- 12. Chemical Geodynamics -- 13. Thermal History of the Earth -- 14. Convection in the Interiors of Solid Planets and Moons -- 15. Nature of Convection in the Mantle.
This book is a comprehensive and up-to-date synthesis of all aspects of mantle convection. It is suitable as a graduate textbook in geophysics and planetary physics, and as an invaluable review for researchers in the broad fields of the earth and planetary sciences.
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