Dynamics of the Earth's Evolution

Download or read book Dynamics of the Earth's Evolution written by Roman Teisseyre and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2016-01-21 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This sixth volume in the monograph series Physics and Evolution of the Earth's Interior presents the problems of the mature evolution of the Earth's interior. It provides comprehensive coverage of the present state of the mantle convection theory. The relations between paleomagnetism, plate tectonics and mantle convection theory are discussed. A more general view of the evolution based on the thermodynamics of irreversible processes is also given. This book will interest geophysicists, geologists, geodesists and planetologists.