Allan Cox, R. B. Hart

Plate Tectonics (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley-Blackwell
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Juli 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781444314212
• Artikelnr.: 38306512

Autorenporträt

Allan Cox is an author and advisor to CEOs and their top teams. He is founder of Allan Cox & Associates, Inc., and has authored 10 books published by Amazon and others including Simon & Schuster, Doubleday, Amacom, St. Martin's Press and Wiley.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction
Basics of a revolution
Plates in velocity space
Getting round 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
Absolute Plate Motion
Problems
Suggested Reading
Index
Index of References.