Product Description

Provides a timely and comprehensive review of the origin and history of mantle plumes throughout geologic time. The book describes the new and exciting results of the last few years, and integrates an immense amount of material from the fields of geology, geophysics, and geochemistry that bear on mantle plumes. Included are chapters on hotspots and mantle upwelling, large igneous provinces (including examples from Mars and Venus), mantle plume generation and melting in plumes, plumes as tracers of mantle processes, plumes and continental growth, Archean mantle plumes, superplumes, mantle plume events in Earth history, and their effect on the atmosphere, oceans, and life. This book will be valuable as a textbook for advanced undergraduate and graduate courses in geophysics, geochemistry, and geology, and will also form a reference text for researchers in the Earth sciences from a variety of disciplines.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #913877 in Books
• Published on: 2001-10-29
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 320 pages

Review
‘This book provides a good précis of current arguments, it is provocative in the topics linked together and it is an excellent basis for further discussion in a fast moving field.’ Chris J. Hawkesworth, Geoscientist