Mantle Dynamics

Treatise on Geophysics

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Paperback, 520 pages
Published: AUG-2009
ISBN 13: 978-0-444-53456-9
Imprint: ELSEVIER


Edited By
David Bercovici, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA

Description
Mantle Dynamics provides an in-depth overview of the field of mantle dynamics in its present state. It surveys the physics and fluid dynamics of mantle convection, with theoretical, laboratory and computational methods. The volume also reviews the present understanding of convection in Earth's mantle, including energy sources and thermal evolution, upper-mantle flow, the fate of subducting slabs, hotspots and mantle plumes, and convective mixing and mantle geochemistry.



 
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