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    Dynamic Earth

    Dynamic Earth presents the principles of convection in the earth's mantle


    in an accessible style. Mantle convection is the process underlying plate
    tectonics, volcanic hotspots and, hence, most geological processes. This
    book is one of the first to synthesise the exciting insights into the earth's
    basic internal mechanisms that have flowed from the plate tectonics
    revolution of the 1960s.
    The book summarises key observations and presents the relevant
    physics starting from basic principles. The core of the text shows how
    direct inferences from observations and basic physics clarify the roles of
    the tectonic plates and mantle plumes. The main concepts and arguments
    are presented with minimal mathematics, although more mathematical
    versions of important aspects are included for those who desire them. The
    book also surveys the geochemical constraints on the mantle and discusses
    its dynamical evolution, with implications for changes in the surface
    tectonic regime.
    The audience for Geoff Davies' book will be the broad range of
    geologists who desire a better understanding of the earth's internal
    dynamics, as well as graduate students and researchers working on the
    many aspects of mantle dynamics and its implications for geological
    processes on earth and other planets. It is also suitable as a text or
    supplementary text for upper undergraduate and postgraduate courses in
    geophysics, geochemistry, and tectonics.

    GEOFF DAVIES is a Senior Fellow in the Research School of Earth Sciences


    at the Australian National University. He received B.Sc.(Hons.) and
    M.Sc. degrees from Monash University, Australia, and his Ph.D. from the
    California Institute of Technology. He was a postdoctoral fellow at
    Harvard University and held faculty positions at the University of
    Rochester and Washington University in St. Louis, before returning to his
    home country. He is the author of over 80 scientific papers published in
    leading international journals and was elected a Fellow of the American
    Geophysical Union in 1992.

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    Dynamic Earth
    Plates, Plumes and Mantle Convection

    GEOFFREY F. DAVIES
    Australian National University

    CAMBRIDGE
    UNIVERSITY PRESS

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    © Cambridge University Press 1999

    This book is in copyright. Subject to statutory exception


    and to the provisions of relevant collective licensing agreements,
    no reproduction of any part may take place without
    the written permission of Cambridge University Press.

    First published 1999

    Typeset in Times 10±/13pt, in 3B2 [KW]

    A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

    Library of Congress Cataloguing in Publication data

    Davies, Geoffrey F. (Geoffrey Frederick)


    Dynamic earth : plates, plumes, and mantle convection/ Geoffrey F. Davies.
    p. cm.
    Includes bibliographical references.
    ISBN 0 521 59067 1 (hbk.). - ISBN 0 521 59933 4 (pbk.)
    1. Earth-Mantle. 2. Geodynamics. I. Title.
    QE509.4.D38 1999
    551.1'16-dc21 98-51722 CIP

    ISBN-13 978-0-521-59067-9 hardback


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