Plate Tectonics
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Plate Tectonics

  1. 288 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

About this book

This comprehensive text has established itself over the past 20 years as the definitive work in its fields, presenting a thorough coverage of this key area of structural geology in a way which is ideally suited to advanced undergraduate and masters courses. The thorough coverage means that it is also useful to a wider readership as an up to date survey of plate tectonics.The fourth edition brings the text fully up to date, with coverage of the latest research in crustal evolution, supercontinents, mass extinctions. A new chapter covers the feedbacks of various Earth systems. In addition, a new appendix provides a valuable survey of current methodology.

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Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Plate Tectonics and Crustal Evolution
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. Preface
  6. Chapter 1. Plate tectonics
  7. Chapter 2. The Earth's crust
  8. Chapter 3. Tectonic settings
  9. Chapter 4. The Earth's mantle and core
  10. Chapter 5. Crustal and mantle evolution
  11. Chapter 6. The atmosphere, oceans, climates, and life
  12. Chapter 7. Comparative planetary evolution
  13. References
  14. Index