New theory of the Earth / Don L. Anderson.
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Cambridge ; New York :
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2007.
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Table of Contents:
- Pt. I. Planetary perspective
- Ch. 1. Origin and early history
- Ch. 2. Comparative planetology
- Ch. 3. The building blocks of planets
- Pt. II. Earth : the dynamic planet
- Ch. 4. The outer shells of earth
- Ch. 5. The eclogite engine
- Ch. 6. The shape of the earth
- Ch. 7. Convection and complexity
- Pt. III. Radial and lateral structure
- Ch. 8. Let's take it from the top : the crust and upper mantle
- Ch. 9. A laminated lumpy mantle
- Ch. 10. The bowels of the earth
- Ch. 11. Geotomography : heterogeneity of the mantle
- Pt. IV. Sampling the earth
- Ch. 12. Statistics and other damned lies
- Ch. 13. Making an earth
- Ch. 14. Magmas : windows into the mantle
- Ch. 15. The hard rock cafe
- Ch. 16. Noble gas isotopes
- Ch. 17. The other isotopes
- Pt. V. Mineral physics
- Ch. 18. Elasticity and solid-state geophysics
- Ch. 19. Dissipation
- Ch. 20. Fabric of the mantle
- Ch. 21. Nonelastic and transport properties
- Ch. 22. Squeezing : phase changes and mantle mineralogy
- Pt. VI. Origin and evolution of the layers and blobs
- Ch. 23. The upper mantle
- Ch. 24. The nature and cause of mantle heterogeneity
- Ch. 25. Crystallization of the mantle
- Pt. VII. Energetics
- Ch. 26. Terrestrial heat flow
- Ch. 27. The thermal history of the Earth.
