New Theory of the Earth
Cambridge University Press
Edition: 2, 4/12/2007
EAN 9780521849593, ISBN10: 0521849594
Hardcover, 400 pages, 25.4 x 19.6 x 2.5 cm
Language: English
Originally published in English
Theory of the Earth is an interdisciplinary advanced textbook on the origin, composition, and evolution of the Earth's interior: geophysics, geochemistry, dynamics, convection, mineralogy, volcanism, energetics and thermal history. This is the only book on the whole landscape of deep Earth processes which ties together all the strands of the subdisciplines. It is a complete update of Anderson's Theory of the Earth (1989). It includes many new sections and dozens of new figures and tables. As with the original book, this new edition will prove to be a stimulating textbook on advanced courses in geophysics, geochemistry, and planetary science, and supplementary textbook on a wide range of other advanced Earth science courses. It will also be an essential reference and resource for all researchers in the solid Earth sciences.
Preface
Part I. Planetary Perspective
1. Origin and early history
2. Comparative planetology
3. Building blocks of planets
Part II. Earth
The Dynamic Planet
4. Outer shells of Earth
5. Eclogite engine
6. Shape of the Earth
7. Convection and complexity
Part III. Radial and Lateral Structure
8. Let's take it from the top
crust and upper mantle
9. A laminated lumpy mantle
10. The bowels of the Earth
11. Geotomography
heterogeneity of the mantle
Part IV. Sampling Earth
12. Statistics and other damned lies
13. Making an Earth
14. Magmas - windows into the mantle
15. The hard rock cafe
16. Noble gas isotopes
17. The other isotopes
Part V. Mineral Physics
18. Elasticity and solid state geophysics
19. Dissipation
20. Anisotropy
fabric of the mantle
21. Nonelastic and transport properties
22. Squeezing
phase changes and mantle mineralogy
Part VI. Origin and Evolution of Layers and Blobs
23. The upper mantle
24. The nature and cause of mantle heterogeneity
25. Crystallization of the mantle
Part VII. Energetics
26. Terrestrial heat flow
27. Thermal history
Appendix
Index.