Geodynamics

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Review ------ "...an excellent choice as a textbook or reference for teachers and students of our home planet. If you are looking for a single, comprehensive of plate tectonics, I highly recommend this book. If, like me, you already own a well-worn first edition, the second edition offers enough new material to be worth adding to your library as well." The Leading Edge "Geodynamics provides practical in into the governing physics of many processes in geology and geophysics. ... Ideal for providing essential background for upper-level undergraduates and graduate students. ... Geodynamics also provides benchmark material for graduate student qualifying examinations. Researchers will find Geodynamics to be an excellent reference tool for basic equations and concepts, as well as for definitions and numerical values of many physical properties of the Earth and other planetary bodies. This texbook will also be valuable to scientists addressing problems outside of their fields of expertise, and to those expanding into new areas. ... The second edition of Geodynamics, like its predecessor, stands alone in its ability to link basic theory and geologic observation. Geodynamics should continue to benefit new generations of Earth scientists and students for decades to come." EOS Read more ( javascript:void(0) ) Book Description ---------------- First published in 1982, Don Turcotte and Jerry Schubert's Geodynamics became a classic textbook for several generations of students of geophysics and geology. In this second edition, the authors bring this text completely up-to-date. Important additions include a chapter on geodynamics, an updated coverage of comparative planetology based on recent planetary missions, and a variety of other new topics. This new edition will once again prove to be a classic textbook for intermediate to advanced undergraduates and graduate students in geology, geophysics, and earth science. Read more ( javascript:void(0) )