Geodynamics

Описание

First published in 1982, Don Turcotte and Jerry Schubert’s Geodynamics became a classic textbook for several generations of students of geophysics and
geology. In this second edition, the authors bring this classic text completely
up-to-date. Important additions include a chapter on chemical geodynamics,
an updated coverage of comparative planetology based on recent planetary
missions, and a variety of other new topics.
Geodynamics provides the fundamentals necessary for an understanding of
the workings of the solid Earth. The Earth is a heat engine, with the source
of the heat the decay of radioactive elements and the cooling of the Earth
from its initial accretion. The work output includes earthquakes, volcanic
eruptions, and mountain building. Geodynamics comprehensively explains
these concepts in the context of the role of mantle convection and plate
tectonics. Observations such as the Earth’s gravity field, surface heat flow,
distribution of earthquakes, surface stresses and strains, and distribution of
elements are discussed. The rheological behavior of the solid Earth, from an
elastic solid to fracture to plastic deformation to fluid flow, is considered.
Important inputs come from a comparison of the similarities and differences
between the Earth, Venus, Mars, Mercury, and the Moon. An extensive set
of student exercises is included.
This new edition of Geodynamics will once again prove to be a classic
textbook for intermediate to advanced undergraduates and graduate students in geology, geophysics, and Earth science.
Donald L. Turcotte is Maxwell Upson Professor of Engineering, Department of Geological Sciences, Cornell University. In addition to this book, he
is author or co-author of 3 books and 276 research papers, including Fractals
and Chaos in Geology and Geophysics (Cambridge University Press, 1992
and 1997) and Mantle Convection in the Earth and Planets (with Gerald
Schubert and Peter Olson; Cambridge University Press, 2001). Professor
Turcotte is a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union, Honorary Fellow
of the European Union of Geosciences, and Fellow of the Geological Society of America. He is the recipient of several medals, including the Day
Medal of the Geological Society of America, the Wegener Medal of the European Union of Geosciences, the Whitten Medal of the American Geophysical
Union, the Regents (New York State) Medal of Excellence, and Caltech’s
Distinguished Alumnus Award. Professor Turcotte is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Gerald Schubert is a Professor in the Department of Earth and Space
Sciences and the Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics at the Uni-

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