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The sixth volume of the series "Physics and Evolution of the Earth's Interior" focuses on the mature evolution of the Earth's interior. Three closely coupled branches of Earth sciences are presented. These are: paleomagnetism, plate tectonics and mantle convection theory. Their mutual connections are described and the mantle stresses driving the evolution processes are discussed. Paleomagnetism not just provides crucial data confirming the plate tectonics. In a similar way, plate tectonics gives the best evidence of the mantle convection process. Mantle convection is a leading subject of the book. Both the observational and theoretical approach to mantle convection are presented. The observational approach includes the paleomagnetism backing the plate tectonics theory, methods of interpretation of the gravity data and seismic tomography. The motion of the lithospheric plates described by plate tectonics is a surface manifestation of the convective flow. The gravity data, after some assumptions, could be a source of information about the density distribution in the mantle. This is of special value because the density distribution is included directly in the equation of motion for fl

Author

R. Teisseyre, J. Leliwa-Kopystyński, and B. Lang; contributors, N. Bakun-Czubarow ... [et al.

Publisher

Amsterdam ; New York: Elsevier ; Warszawa: Polish Scientific Publishers ; New York, NY: [Distributor] for the USA and Canada, Elsevier Science Pub. Co.

Published

1992

Language

EN

ISBN

9780444989086

Subjects

Science, Astronomy, Physics

Updated

2026-03-25