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Global Tectonics (Paperback)

by Philip Kearey (Author), Keith A. Klepeis (Author), Frederick J. Vine (Author)

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Paperback: 496 pages
Publisher: WileyBlackwell; 3rd Edition edition (22 Aug 2008)
Language English
ISBN-10: 1405107774
ISBN-13: 978-1405107778
Product Dimensions: 24.4 x 18.8 x 2.8 cm

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Global Tectonics will find its place in all well equipped libraries and a personal copy will be of use for any geoscientist who needs a comprehensive overview. (Surveys in Geophysics, September 2009)

This textbook provides a comprehensive overview of the field of global tectonics. Because the field has changed significantly since the last edition was published, the majority of text and figures in the third edition are new. ( Book News, September 2009)

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The third edition of this widely acclaimed textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to all aspects of global tectonics, and includes major revisions to reflect the most significant recent advances in the field.

A fully revised third edition of this highly acclaimed text written by eminent authors including one of the pioneers of plate tectonic theory
Major revisions to this new edition reflect the most significant recent advances in the field, including new and expanded chapters on Precambrian tectonics and the supercontinent cycle and the implications of plate tectonics for environmental change
Combines a historical approach with process science to provide a careful balance between geological and geophysical material in both continental and oceanic regimes
Dedicated website available at www.blackwellpublishing.com/kearey/

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3.0 out of 5 stars Seems somewhat dated in 2001. Hard to read., 22 Nov 2001

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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.

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