| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 940 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 797-873) and index. |
| Contents |
1. Historical Background -- 2. Plate Tectonics -- 3. Structure and Composition of the Mantle -- 4. Mantle Temperatures and Thermodynamic Properties -- 5. Viscosity of the Mantle -- 6. Basic Equations -- 7. Linear Stability -- 8. Approximate Solutions -- 9. Calculations of Convection in Two Dimensions -- 10. Numerical Models of Three-dimensional Convection -- 11. Hot Spots and Mantle Plumes -- 12. Chemical Geodynamics -- 13. Thermal History of the Earth -- 14. Convection in the Interiors of Solid Planets and Moons -- 15. Nature of Convection in the Mantle. |
| Summary |
This book is a comprehensive and up-to-date synthesis of all aspects of mantle convection. It is suitable as a graduate textbook in geophysics and planetary physics, and as an invaluable review for researchers in the broad fields of the earth and planetary sciences. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Earth (Planet) -- Mantle.
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Heat -- Convection.
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Heat -- Convection. |
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Geodynamics.
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Geodynamics. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Turcotte, Donald Lawson.
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Olson, Peter.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Schubert, Gerald. Mantle convection in the earth and planets. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001 052135367X (DLC) 00058515 (OCoLC)44613137 |
| ISBN |
0511017863 (electronic book) |
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9780511017865 (electronic book) |
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9780511612879 (electronic book) |
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0511612877 (electronic book) |
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9780511052415 (electronic book) |
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0511052413 (electronic book) |
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0511154623 |
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9780511154621 |
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052135367X |
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9780521353670 |
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0521798361 |
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9780521798365 |
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