Global Tectonics
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Author(s): P. Kearey, K. Klepeis and F. Vine
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN: 9781405107778
Format: softback
482pp
Price: £34.99
Review Date: 26 February 2009
Review: This textbook for senior undergraduates in the geological sciences assumes a basic knowledge of geology. This third edition is structured much like the previous editions, but includes details of new developments in the understanding of the earth’s structure and its formation, particularly in relation to continental tectonics and mantle convections. There are chapters on: The interior of the Earth; Continental drift; Sea floor spreading and transform faults; The framework of plate tectonics; Ocean ridges; Continental rifts and rifted margins; Continental transforms and strike-slip faults; Subduction zones; Orogenic belts; Precambrian tectonics and the supercontinent cycle; The mechanism of plate tectonics; and Implications of plate tectonics.