The Earth's Mantle - Composition, Structure, and Evolution (Paperback, Revised)

The Earth's mantle plays a crucial role in a variety of geologic processes and provides researchers with important insights into the development of our planet. Interdisciplinary in scope,The Earth's Mantle is a comprehensive overview of the composition, structure and evolution of the mantle layer. Striking a balance between established consensus and continuing controversy, it will provide researchers and graduate students with an authoritative review of this important part of our planet. Written by internationally recognized scientists from the Research School of Earth Sciences at the Australian National University, this book draws on perspectives from cosmochemistry, isotope geochemistry, fluid dynamics and petrology, seismology and geodynamics, and mineral and rock physics.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	June 2000
First published:	1998
Editors:	Ian Jackson
Dimensions:	254 x 178 x 28mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	594
Edition:	Revised
ISBN-13:	978-0-521-78566-2
Categories:	Books > Science & Mathematics > Physics > Applied physics & special topics > Geophysics Books > Earth & environment > Earth sciences > Geology & the lithosphere > General
LSN:	0-521-78566-9
Barcode:	9780521785662

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