An Introduction to Our Dynamic Planet - Nick Rogers, Stephen Blake, Kevin Burton, Mike Widdowson, Ian Parkinson

An Introduction to Our Dynamic Planet

Buch | Hardcover
398 Seiten
2008
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-0-521-49424-3 (ISBN)
118,45 inkl. MwSt
This concise textbook integrates aspects of geophysics, geochemistry, and petrology to explain the processes of plate tectonics and geodynamics, and is ideal for a one-semester undergraduate course. Incorporating a wealth of pedagogical features, this is the first text to support a modern, Earth system science approach to teaching these topics.
This is the first undergraduate textbook to fully integrate results from geophysics, geochemistry, and petrology to describe the structure, composition, and dynamic processes that operate throughout the solid Earth. It presents an Earth system science approach to studies of the Earth's interior and develops a global view of solid Earth cycles to explain geodynamic and plate tectonic processes. This book initially explores the formation and evolution of the early Earth, then considers the operative forces for plate tectonic movements at the Earth's surface, and finally discusses global cycles within the deep Earth and their effect on the surface environment. Interactions between the geosphere, hydrosphere, and atmosphere, and their influence at and beneath the Earth's surface are examined in detail. This textbook thus provides a concise yet extensive coverage of the solid Earth. Written for intermediate undergraduates, it includes a wealth of features to support student learning at this level.

Nick Rogers is a Senior Lecturer in Earth Sciences at the Open University, Milton Keynes, UK. His research interests are in the field of trace element and isotope geochemistry applied to igneous petrology, the composition of the mantle, and the interaction of mantle plumes with the continental lithosphere. Dr Rogers is a Council Member of The Geological Society of London and is also their Publications Secretary.

1. An introduction to the structure and composition of the Earth; 2. The earth Earth; 3. Plate tectonics; 4. Processes at constructive plate boundaries; 5. Processes at destructive plate boundaries; 6. Processes during continental collision; 7. The deep mantle and global cycles; 8. The continental crust; Answers to questions; Appendices; Further reading; Glossary; Index.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 14.2.2008
Zusatzinfo 250 Line drawings, color
Verlagsort Cambridge
Sprache englisch
Maße 215 x 269 mm
Gewicht 1478 g
Themenwelt Naturwissenschaften Geowissenschaften Geologie
Naturwissenschaften Geowissenschaften Geophysik
ISBN-10 0-521-49424-9 / 0521494249
ISBN-13 978-0-521-49424-3 / 9780521494243
Zustand Neuware
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