Overview
- Includes personal experience of doing science as well as history of the science, past and recent
- Helps us to understand forces driving tectonic plates and mantle plumes
- Draws a remarkable picture of the Earth turning slowly inside out
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
Plate tectonics can drift continents and push up mountains, but what drives the plates? This is an insider’s account of how we answered questions posed over two centuries ago, and completed geology’s quest for a driving mechanism. Forging through confusing evidence, apparent contradictions and raging debates we arrived at not one but two mechanisms: sinking plates and rising plumes.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Dr. Geoff Davies is a retired geophysicist with degrees from Monash University in Australia and the California Institute of Technology. He was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University and held several academic positions, concluding at the Australian National University. He has published two scientific books and over 100 scientific papers. His work focusses on mantle dynamics and related topics, as well as the interaction of mantle convection and the thermal evolution of the earth’s interior, which controls the tectonic evolution of the earth.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Stories from the Deep Earth
Book Subtitle: How Scientists Figured Out What Drives Tectonic Plates and Mountain Building
Authors: Geoffrey F. Davies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-91359-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-91358-8Published: 04 January 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-91361-8Published: 05 January 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-91359-5Published: 03 January 2022
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: V, 202
Number of Illustrations: 63 b/w illustrations
Topics: Geophysics/Geodesy, Geochemistry