Plate tectonics: how it works

By:

Cox, Allan

Contributor(s):

Hart, Robert Brain [co-author]

Publication details: Palo Alto: Blackwell Scientific Publication, 2008.Description: xxi, 392p.: ill.:, pbk.: 24cmISBN:

9780865423138

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

551.136 COX

Summary: 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. https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/Plate-Tectonics-by-Allan-Cox-Robert-Brian-Hart/9780865423138

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books	IIT Gandhinagar	General	551.136 COX (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		033619

Includes Index and Index of references

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.

https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/Plate-Tectonics-by-Allan-Cox-Robert-Brian-Hart/9780865423138

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