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Provides a timely and comprehensive review of the origin and history of mantle plumes throughout geologic time. The book describes the new and exciting results of the last few years, and integrates an immense amount of material from the fields of geology, geophysics, and geochemistry that bear on mantle plumes. Included are chapters on hotspots and mantle upwelling, large igneous provinces (including examples from Mars and Venus), mantle plume generation and melting in plumes, plumes as tracers of mantle processes, plumes and continental growth, Archean mantle plumes, superplumes, mantle plume events in Earth history, and their effect on the atmosphere, oceans, and life. This book will be valuable as a textbook for advanced undergraduate and graduate courses in geophysics, geochemistry, and geology, and will also form a reference text for researchers in the Earth sciences from a variety of disciplines.Product Identifiers
PublisherCambridge University Press
ISBN-139780521014724
eBay Product ID (ePID)90138505
Product Key Features
Number of Pages326 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameMantle Plumes and Their Record in Earth History
Publication Year2001
SubjectGeology, Physics
TypeTextbook
AuthorKent C. Condie
FormatPaperback
Dimensions
Item Height255 mm
Item Weight687 g
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
Title_AuthorKent C. Condie