Plate Tectonics: How It Works

by Allan Cox and Robert Brian Hart

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 086542313X
• ISBN13: 9780865423138
• Release Date: January 1986
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.4" x 9.3"