Mantle Plumes and Their Record in Earth History

Kent C. Condie

336 pages, parution le 10/12/2001

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Résumé

In Recent Years an enormous amount of data have been published related to mantle plumes, both modern and ancient. Some significant questions have arisen. Could the Earth have been more like Mars and Venus during the Archean? Instead of cooling principally by plate tectonics as it does today, did the Archean Earth cool chiefly by rising mantle plumes? How do we identify the effects of mantle plumes in the geologic record? Did plumes have a role in the growth of continents? Are large mantle plume events recorded in the geologic record, and, if so, what were the consequences of these events in terms of our atmosphere, oceans, and biosphere?

Mantle Plumes and Their Record in Earth History provides a timely and comprehensive review of the origin and history of mantle plumes throughout geologic time. This 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 mantel plumes, superplumes, and mantle plume events in Earth history and their effect on the atmosphere, oceans, and life in the geologic past." This book will be valuable as a textbook for advanced undergraduate and graduate courses in geophysics, geochemistry, and geology and will also serve as a reference for researchers in the Earth sciences from a variety of disciplines.

Contents

Preface
Introduction
Hotspots and Mantle Upwellings
Large Igneous Provinces
Mantle Plume Generation and Melting
Plumes as Tracers of Mantle Processes
Mantle Plumes and Continental Growth
Mantle Plumes in the Archean
Superplume Events
Mantle Plumes and Earth Systems
References
Index

L'auteur - Kent C. Condie

Kent Condie is a professor of geochemistry at New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, where he has taught since 1970. Condie's research has focused primarily on the origin and evolution of continents and the early history of the Earth. An author/editor of six books, Condie has co-authored more than 275 scientific papers.

Caractéristiques techniques

	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Cambridge University Press
Auteur(s)	Kent C. Condie
Parution	10/12/2001
Nb. de pages	336
Format	18 x 25,5
Couverture	Broché
Poids	685g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780521014724
ISBN13	978-0-521-01472-4