1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910454832103321

Autore

Schubert Gerald

Titolo

Mantle convection in the earth and planets / / Gerald Schubert, Donald L. Turcotte, Peter Olson [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2001

ISBN

1-107-11153-6

0-511-55544-X

0-511-61287-7

0-521-35367-X

0-511-05241-3

0-511-15462-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xv, 940 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

551.1/16

Soggetti

Heat - Convection

Geodynamics

Earth (Planet) Mantle

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 797-873) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; 1 Historical Background; 2 Plate Tectonics; 3 Structure and Composition of the Mantle; 4 Mantle Temperatures and Thermodynamic Properties; 5 Viscosity of the Mantle; 6 Basic Equations; 7 Linear Stability; 8 Approximate Solutions; 9 Calculations of Convection in Two Dimensions; 10 Numerical Models of Three-dimensional Convection; 11 Hot Spots and Mantle Plumes; 12 Chemical Geodynamics; 13 Thermal History of the Earth; 14 Convection in the Interiors of Solid Planets and Moons; 15 Nature of Convection in the Mantle; References

Appendix: Table of VariablesAuthor Index; Subject Index

Sommario/riassunto

Mantle Convection in the Earth and Planets is a comprehensive synthesis of all aspects of mantle convection within the Earth, the terrestrial planets, the Moon, and the Galilean satellites of Jupiter. The book includes up-to-date discussions of the latest research developments that have revolutionized our understanding of the Earth



and the planets. It is suitable as a text for graduate courses in geophysics and planetary physics, and as a supplementary reference for use at the undergraduate level. It is also an invaluable review for researchers in the broad fields of the Earth and planetary sciences including seismologists, tectonophysicists, geodesists, mineral physicists, volcanologists, geochemists, geologists, mineralogists, petrologists, paleomagnetists, planetary geologists, and meteoriticists. The book features a comprehensive index, an extensive reference list, numerous illustrations (many in color) and major questions that focus the discussion and suggest avenues of future research.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910456406003321

Autore

Henry Jim <1962->

Titolo

Thank you for being concerned and sensitive [[electronic resource] /] / Jim Henry

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Iowa City, Iowa, : University of Iowa Press, c1997

ISBN

1-58729-107-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (153 p.)

Collana

The Iowa short fiction award

Disciplina

813

813/.54

Soggetti

Short stories, American

American fiction

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Motherhurt; Gladys Knows; The Flood; Congressman Spoonbender; The Earthling!; The Prodigal Corpse; Observer Status; Jesus; The Main Event; The Last of the Plaids; "Yes!" Wins; Mouthfeel

Sommario/riassunto

Jim Henry's stories defy convention. There are no easy answers, no  quick fixes. Although the plots vary-from a corpse returning to visit  his family weeks after his burial, to the musings of a congressman  grappling with the weight of history, to a wealthy family's elaborate  plot to cheer their mysteriously wounded mother-all express a sense of  



the extraordinary in the ordinary, the absurd in the everyday.Henry's characters are for the most part misfits, outsiders  looking in on a world whose seemingly natural order is turned upside  down. In a throw-away culture obsessed wit