Editors:
- Presenting a new concept to explain catastrophic events on Earth through geologic time, such as mass extinction and drastic environmental change
- Interdisciplinary in approach and authorship
- Abundantly illustrated with full color images
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Table of contents (18 chapters)
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Front Matter
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The Thermal and Compositional Structure of the Earth
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Seismological Evidence and Boundary Layers in the Mantle
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Global Material Circulation and Petrogenesis of Superplume Rocks
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Front Matter
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Dynamics of Superplumes
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Plume Dynamics through Earth History
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About this book
Reviews
From the reviews:
“The advance in the Earth sciences exhibited in this book became possible owing to the application of up-to-date technologies, primarily of seismic tomography and petrology. … the book is recommended as the up-to-date theoretical basis for any kind of geological research: tectonic, petrologic, geophysical, mineragenic, etc. … The authors set a stress on equivocal character of their statements and outline top-priority problems of the Earth sciences to be solved, making the reviewed publication still more valuable.” (V. E. Khain and N. I. Filatova, Geotectonics, Vol. 44 (1), 2010)Editors and Affiliations
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University of Minnesota, U.S.A.
David A. Yuen
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Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Shigenori Maruyama
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Yale University, Connecticut, U.S.A.
Shun-Ichiro Karato
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University of Leicester, U.K.
Brian F. Windley
About the editors
The four editors and most contributors have been a major group to organize recent critical international workshops, AGU special symposium, and other international workshop including last several Penrose conferences.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Superplumes: Beyond Plate Tectonics
Editors: David A. Yuen, Shigenori Maruyama, Shun-Ichiro Karato, Brian F. Windley
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-5750-2
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2007
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-5749-6Published: 29 June 2007
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-9514-3Published: 19 September 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-5750-2Published: 26 August 2007
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 569
Topics: Geophysics/Geodesy, Mineralogy, Geochemistry, Planetology, Historical Geology