Plate Tectonics and Crustal Evolution ISBN: 9781483286655 Platform/Publisher: Ebook Central / Elsevier Science & Technology Digital rights:Users: Unlimited; Printing: Limited; Download: 7 Days at a Time Subjects: Science; Science: Geology;
This substantially revised edition includes recently published information relating to plate tectonics and continental origin. A large number of new figures have been added, and new sections included on meteorites, seismic tomography, mantle convection, accretionary terranes, mantle sources and evolution, continental growth, secular changes in Earth history, also a new chapter on exogenic Earth systems. In addition the following topics have been substantially revised: lunar origin, global gravity, origin of the core, metamorphism, plate boundaries, hotspots, tectonic settings, and magma associations. Among the new features the Tectonic Map of the World has also been updated.