Mantle Convection in the Earth and Planets 2 Volume Paperback Set

Comprehensive and up-to-date synthesis of all aspects of mantle convection, for advanced students and researchers.

Gerald Schubert (Author), Donald L. Turcotte (Author), Peter Olson (Author)

9780521798365, Cambridge University Press

, published 24 September 2001

912 pages, 346 b/w illus. 79 colour illus. 62 tables
24.4 x 16.8 x 5.3 cm, 1.54 kg

' … publication of this book makes it much easier to get into the subject and build an overview of it than it has been in the past. All who are working in this field will welcome its appearance.' Journal of Petrology

Mantle Convection in the Earth and Planets is a comprehensive synthesis of all aspects of mantle convection within the Earth, the terrestrial planets, the Moon, and the Galilean satellites of Jupiter. The book includes up-to-date discussions of the latest research developments that have revolutionized our understanding of the Earth and the planets. It is suitable as a text for graduate courses in geophysics and planetary physics, and as a supplementary reference for use at the undergraduate level. It is also an invaluable review for researchers in the broad fields of the Earth and planetary sciences including seismologists, tectonophysicists, geodesists, mineral physicists, volcanologists, geochemists, geologists, mineralogists, petrologists, paleomagnetists, planetary geologists, and meteoriticists. The book features a comprehensive index, an extensive reference list, numerous illustrations (many in color) and major questions that focus the discussion and suggest avenues of future research.

Preface
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. Hotspots 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
References
Index.

Subject Areas: Geology & the lithosphere [RBG], Earth sciences [RB], Geophysics [PHVG], Solar system: the Sun & planets [PGS]