Publisher's Synopsis
This sixth volume in the series "Physics and Evolution of the Earth's Interior" presents the problems of the mature evolution of the Earth's interior. It provides comprehensive coverage of the present state of the mantle convection theory. The relations between palaeomagnetism, plate tectonics and mantle convection theory are discussed. A more general view of the evolution based on the thermodynamics of irreversible processes is also given. This book should interest geophysicists, geologists, geodesists and planetologists.
