Plate tectonics: how it works
by Cox, Allan
"Palaeomagnetism, plates, hot spots, trenches and ridges are the subject of this unusual book. Plate Tectonics is a book of exercises and background information that introduces and demonstrates the basics of the subject. In a lively and lucid manner, it brings together a great deal of material in spherical trigonometry that is necessary to understand plate tectonics and the research literature written about it. It is intended for use in first year graduate courses in geophysics and tectonics, a…
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- Full title :Plate tectonics : how it works / Allan Cox, Robert Brian Hart.
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"Palaeomagnetism, plates, hot spots, trenches and ridges are the subject of this unusual book. Plate Tectonics is a book of exercises and background information that introduces and demonstrates the basics of the subject. In a lively and lucid manner, it brings together a great deal of material in spherical trigonometry that is necessary to understand plate tectonics and the research literature written about it. It is intended for use in first year graduate courses in geophysics and tectonics, and provides a guide to the quantitative understanding of plate tectonics."--Publisher's description.
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- Publication Date:©1986
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Blackwell Scientific Publications
- Place of Publication:Palo Alto
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©1986
The Physical Object
- Description:xxi, 392 pages : : illustrations ; : 24 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:086542313X, 9780865423138
- oclc:ocm13333302
- LC Classification:QE511.4
- Dewey Decimal:551.1/36
Table of Contents
Basics of a revolution -- Plates in velocity space -- Getting around on a sphere -- Wrapping plate tectonics around a globe -- Plotting planes and vectors in local coordinates -- Earthquakes and plates -- Finite rotations -- Magnetism and isochrons -- Paleomagnetic poles -- Putting it all together.
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