- Paperback: 344 pages
- Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell; 2nd Edition edition (2 July 1996)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0865429243
- ISBN-13: 978-0865429246
- Product Dimensions: 24.4 x 18.8 x 0.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
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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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Warmly praised in its first edition, particularly for its careful balance between geology and geophysics, Global Tectonics is an even better textbook in its second edition.
Responding to reviews, comments from instructors and developments in the subject, the authors have significantly extended the book′s breadth and restructured some sections. Expanded sections include those on the formation of oceanic crust, the variety of passive continental margins and the nature of convection in the mantle, and a new chapter draws together the material on continental rifts and sedimentary basins.
- Written by very eminent authors. Fred Vine was one of the pioneers of plate tectonic theory.
- Careful balance between geology and geophysics.
- New section of full colour plates.
- Addition of a new chapter drawing together the coverage of continental rifts and sedimentary basins.
- Expanded coverage, particularly of deep seismic reflection, hot spots and petrogenesis.
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Although the theory of the new global tectonics, or plate tectonics, has largely been developed since 1967, the history of ideas concerning a mobilist view of the Earth extends back considerably longer (Rupke, 1970; Tarling & Tarling, 1971; Hallam, 1973a; Vine, 1977; Frankel, 1998). Read the first page
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Although the theory of the new global tectonics, or plate tectonics, has largely been developed since 1967, the history of ideas concerning a mobilist view of the Earth extends back considerably longer (Rupke, 1970; Tarling & Tarling, 1971; Hallam, 1973a; Vine, 1977; Frankel, 1998). Read the first page
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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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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
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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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