The Earth's Mantle
Composition, Structure, and Evolution

Authoritative review of composition, structure and evolution of the mantle for researchers and graduate students.

Ian Jackson (Edited by)

9780521785662, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 19 June 2000

594 pages, 165 b/w illus. 20 tables
25.4 x 17.8 x 2.8 cm, 1.02 kg

'The book … succeeds admirably … researchers with any interest in mantle geochemistry, petrology, or geophysics should buy this book, and all science and reference libraries will hopefully obtain a copy.' Christian Koeberl, Meteoritics and Planetary Science

The Earth's mantle plays a crucial role in a variety of geologic processes and provides researchers with important insights into the development of our planet. Interdisciplinary in scope, The Earth's Mantle is a comprehensive overview of the composition, structure and evolution of the mantle layer. Striking a balance between established consensus and continuing controversy, the book provides researchers and graduate students with an authoritative review of this important part of our planet. Written by internationally recognized scientists from the Research School of Earth Sciences at the Australian National University, it draws on perspectives from cosmochemistry, isotope geochemistry, fluid dynamics and petrology, seismology and geodynamics, and mineral and rock physics. The hardback edition received excellent reviews.

Part I. Accretion and Differentiation of the Earth: 1. Composition of the silicate Earth: implications for accretion and core formation H. St. C. O'Neill and H. Palme
2. Early differentiation of the Earth: an isotopic perspective M. T. McCulloch and V. C. Bennett
3. Primordial solar noble gas component in the Earth: consequences for the origin and evolution of the Earth and its atmosphere I. McDougall and N. Honda
Part II. Dynamics and Evolution of the Earth's Mantle: 4. Understanding mantle dynamics through mathematical models and laboratory experiments R. W. Griffiths and J. S. Turner
5. Plates, plumes, mantle convection and mantle evolution G. F. Davies
6. The mantle's chemical structure: insights from the melting products of mantle plumes I. H. Campbell
7. Pyrolite: a ringwood concept and its current expression D. H. Green and T. J. Falloon
Part III. Structure and Mechanical Behaviour of the Modern Mantle: 8. Seismic structure of the mantle - from subduction zone to craton B. L. N. Kennett and R. D. van der Hilst
9. Composition and temperature of the Earth's mantle: seismological models interpreted through experimental studies of mantle materials I. Jackson and S. M. Rigden
10. The viscosity of the mantle from analyses of glacial rebound phenomena K. Lambeck and P. Johnston
11. Mantle rheology: insights from laboratory studies of the processes of deformation and phase transformation M. R. Drury and J. D. Fitz Gerald.

Subject Areas: Geology & the lithosphere [RBG], Geophysics [PHVG]