- Hardcover: 320 pages
- Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell (6 Mar 1990)
- ISBN-10: 0632024259
- ISBN-13: 978-0632024254
- Product Dimensions: 22.4 x 17 x 4.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 4,016,398 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"...Global Tectonics is a fine book. It is excellent as a text for courses, as an overview for graduate students preparing for qualifier or preliminary exams, and as a review for active researchers. In short, it should be on every geoscientist′s bookshelf". Journal of Geological Education <!––end––>
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This text aims to give a balanced representation of the geological and geophysical techniques involved in elucidating the theory of plate tectonics, and is designed to be suitable for courses beyond the general introductory level. It covers all important aspects of the subject and presents modern ideas concerning plate margins and their manifestations in plate interiors.
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58 of 60 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is one book given in a long preparatory reading list provided by the Open University for a course on "The Earth's Interior".
This is the 5th of the list which I have read. It has been the least readable. It muddles cause and effect. It jumps between sections of a subject without good signposting. It states categorically that full information can be found about a subject in a twenty-year-old paper. It often makes annoying statements that the research results affect geological processes, when it should say that the research affects the interpretation of geological processes.
There are a few topics in this book in which the explanations are better than in other books of similar topics.
It has been a most disappointing read, when I had expected that it would have been much more enlightening and clearer.
It is described as a "second edition", but is not as up-to-date as would be expected for a subject area in which there has been so much recent progress.
This is the 5th of the list which I have read. It has been the least readable. It muddles cause and effect. It jumps between sections of a subject without good signposting. It states categorically that full information can be found about a subject in a twenty-year-old paper. It often makes annoying statements that the research results affect geological processes, when it should say that the research affects the interpretation of geological processes.
There are a few topics in this book in which the explanations are better than in other books of similar topics.
It has been a most disappointing read, when I had expected that it would have been much more enlightening and clearer.
It is described as a "second edition", but is not as up-to-date as would be expected for a subject area in which there has been so much recent progress.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Good Reference Book
22 Sep 2011
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The Book may be old, but it is not worthless as per some other reviews here. The book covers the basics pretty well and thats what most of the geo students need. Sure, there may be other books with better pictures, but the concepts that you need for tectonics is sufficiently present in this book.
I passed out of college about 10 years back. Read the same book then. Glad to find it on Amazon. I own the book now.
Ankan Basu
Geologist/Geochemist
I passed out of college about 10 years back. Read the same book then. Glad to find it on Amazon. I own the book now.
Ankan Basu
Geologist/Geochemist
6 of 11 people found the following review helpful
No slab pull
13 Feb 2011
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I wouldn't recommend this book for someone trying to get a solid foundation in the current state of the field of plate tectonics for several reasons. The writing style of the book can only be described as stodgy and stiff, lacking in verve or color. This is not John McPhee. The book seems a bit out-of-date when you look at the dates of recent references. Very few from the last five years, though it has a copyright date of 2009. The authors seem to like jargon and do not like concise clear phrases. Also, the illustrations seem amateurish, and old-fashioned, often too small for the amount of information in them. It's not a bad book, but much of it was over my head.
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