Publisher's Synopsis
Some of the key problems in solid-Earth geophysics have concerned the physical mechanisms of the Earth's behaviour: the three-dimensional pattern of mantle convection and its relation to surface tectonics, the mechanism of continental rifting and the nature of the interactions that occur at plate boundaries.;Rheology - the science of flow - has an important contribution to make here. The present volume, a translated and revised version of a Japanese publication not previously available in English, brings together contributions from a variety of fields: defects and plastic deformation in metals and oxides; mineral and rock deformation; deformation microstructures and the applications of research in materials science to geological and geophysical problems.;The editor's object has been to provide an overview of the subject for research workers and graduate students in the Earth sciences.
