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Published by the American Geophysical Union as part of the Geophysical Monograph Series, Volume 160. Understanding the inner workings of our planet and its relationship to processes closer to the surface remains a frontier in the geosciences. Manmade probes barely reach ~10 km depth and volcanism rarely brings up samples from deeper than ~150 km. These distances are dwarfed by Earth's dimensions, and our knowledge of the deeper realms is pieced together from a range of surface observables, meteorite and solar atmosphere analyses, experimental and theoretical mineral physics and rock mechanics, and computer simulations. A major unresolved issue concerns the nature of mantle convection, the slow (1-5 cm/year) solid-state stirring that helps cool the planet by transporting radiogenic and primordial heat from Earth's interior to its surface. Expanding our knowledge here requires input from a range of geoscience disciplines, including seismology, geodynamics, mineral physics, and mantle petrology and chemistry. At the same time, with better data sets and faster computers, seismologists are producing more detailed models of 3-D variations in the propagation speed of different types of se

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Author

Robert D. van der Hilst, Jay D. Bass, Jan Matas, Jeannot Trampert

Publisher

AMERICAN GEOPHYSICAL UNION WASHINGTON,DC

Published

2005

Language

EN

ISBN

9780875904252

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Chemistry, Mathematics