Overview
- 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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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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Dynamics of Superplumes
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Plume Dynamics through Earth History
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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
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