New Theory of the Earth
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Author(s): D. L. Anderson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521849593
Format: hardback
384pp
Price: £35.00, $70.00
Review Date: 22 June 2007
Review: Earth science has been fragmented into a number of disciplines: field geology, petrology, mineralogy, geochemistry, geodesy and seismology. In this book the author gathers together all the disciplines relevant to our understanding of the Earth, giving a view that differs somewhat from those of petrologists, geochemists and seismologists. There are chapter on: the Earth as part of the Solar System; plate tectonics and the shape of the Earth; the radial and lateral structure of the Earth; statistics and sampling the Earth; mineral physics; the origin and evolution of layers and blobs; and energetics. This new edition has been updated with topics that have fallen more into mainstream science being cut back and others, such as plate tectonics, sampling theory and the rethinking of geochemical models and the assumption on which they are based, given more space.