Plate tectonics : how it works / / Allan Cox, Robert Brian Hart

• Autore: Cox Allan <1926-1987.>
• Pubblicazione: Boston, : Blackwell Scientific Publications, c1986
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (418 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 551.1; 551.136
• Soggetto topico: Plate tectonics; Geodynamics
• Altri autori: HartRobert Brian
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliography and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Basics of a revolution -- Plates in velocity space -- Getting around on a sphere -- Wrapping plate tectonics around a globe -- Plotting planes and vectors in local coordinates -- Earthquakes and plates -- Finite rotations -- Magnetism and isochrons -- Paleomagnetic poles -- Putting it all together.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Plate tectonics
• ISBN: 1-282-23731-4; 9786612237317; 1-4443-1421-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910818746403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II