This book is unique in bridging the gap between geology and geophysics. Its integrative approach presents students and researchers in these disciplines with other methodologies as they try to understand the Earth's processes. It runs the gamut of earth sciences, from earthquakes and seismic exploration to thermal convection and the orogenic processes. Each chapter starts with the well-established facts and then proceeds through a logical framework to the most conjectural questions, such as continental drift in Paleozoicc and Precambrian times or mantle convection. Many of the issues discussed here do not yet have unanimously agreed solutions, but the extensive references point the reader to further possibilities.
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The topics outlined in this book do not (yet) form a discipline per se, if this word is to be given its etymological, academic meaning. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
crustal asthenosphere, spatial geodesy, overthrusting plate, magnetic anomaly stripes, perfect plastic body, ablative subduction, accretion prism, lithospheric shells, geosyncline theory, terrestrial dynamo, palaeomagnetic chronology, geothermal flux, large overthrusts, subducted plate, laser telemetry, maximal shear stress, ground uplift, competent layer, magma pockets, orogenic phases, silicate earth, thermal plate, elastic lithosphere, mantle lithosphere, geoid undulations Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
North America, Western Alps, Pacific Ocean, East Antarctica, Mid-Atlantic Ridge, Upper Jurassic, Banda Sea, Earth Moon, South American, Easter Island, Indian Ocean, Kluwer Academic, North Atlantic, Central Asia, East-Pacific Ridge, Tien Shan, Antarctic Peninsula, Dora Maira, New Guinea, Red Sea, West Indies, Western Mediterranean, Baltic Sea, Lower Jurassic, Reykjanes Ridge New!
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The topics outlined in this book do not (yet) form a discipline per se, if this word is to be given its etymological, academic meaning. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
crustal asthenosphere, spatial geodesy, overthrusting plate, magnetic anomaly stripes, perfect plastic body, ablative subduction, accretion prism, lithospheric shells, geosyncline theory, terrestrial dynamo, palaeomagnetic chronology, geothermal flux, large overthrusts, subducted plate, laser telemetry, maximal shear stress, ground uplift, competent layer, magma pockets, orogenic phases, silicate earth, thermal plate, elastic lithosphere, mantle lithosphere, geoid undulations Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
North America, Western Alps, Pacific Ocean, East Antarctica, Mid-Atlantic Ridge, Upper Jurassic, Banda Sea, Earth Moon, South American, Easter Island, Indian Ocean, Kluwer Academic, North Atlantic, Central Asia, East-Pacific Ridge, Tien Shan, Antarctic Peninsula, Dora Maira, New Guinea, Red Sea, West Indies, Western Mediterranean, Baltic Sea, Lower Jurassic, Reykjanes Ridge New!
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- The Logic of Scientific Discovery (Routledge Classics) by Karl Popper on page 5
- Plate Tectonics (Developments in Geotectonics, No 6) by Xavier Le Pichon on page 4
- Life in the Sea - Atlantic Ocean by Leighton Taylor in Back Matter
- Northern Asia (Artisans Around the World) by Mary Tull on page 323
- Igneous Rocks and the Depths of the Earth by Reginald A. Daly in Back Matter
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