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Global Tectonics | 
 enlarge | Authors: Philip Kearey, Keith A. Klepeis, Frederick J. Vine
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Category: Book
Buy New: $89.95
Sales Rank: 717850
Media: Paperback
Edition: 3
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 488
ISBN: 1405107774
Dewey Decimal Number: 551.136
EAN: 9781405107778
ASIN: 1405107774
Publication Date: September 22, 2008 (New: Last 30 Days)
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Product Description
The third edition of this widely acclaimed textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to all aspects of global tectonics. Revisions to this new edition reflect the most significant recent advances in the field, providing a thorough, accessible, and up-to-date text. Combining a historical approach with process science, Global Tectonics provides a careful balance between geological and geophysical material in both continental and oceanic regimes.
New and expanded chapters in this third edition include Precambrian tectonics and the supercontinent cycle; mantle processes, including mantle plumes; the implications of plate tectonics for environmental change; large igneous provinces; rifted continental margins; ocean ridges; continental transforms; subduction zones; and numerous orogenic examples.
Written in an engaging style, this important text is an essential reference for undergraduates and graduate students who have a basic introduction in the geosciences.
Book Description
Warmly praised in its first edition, particularly for its careful balance between geology and geophysics, GLOBAL TECTONICS is an even better textbook in its second edition. Responding to reviews, comments from instructors and developments in the subject, the authors have significantly extended the book's breadth and restructured some sections. Expanded sections include those on the formation of oceanic crust, the variety of passive continental margins and the nature of convection in the mantle, and a new chapter draws together the material on continental rifts and sedimentary basins.
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