Quick Search:    advanced search

GSW Home   GeoRef Home   My GSW Alerts   Contact GSW   About GSW   Journals List   Help

This Article Full Text Full Text (PDF) Alert me when this article is cited Alert me if a correction is posted Services Email this article to a friend Similar articles in this journal Alert me to new issues of the journal Download to citation manager Citing Articles Citing Articles via Google Scholar Google Scholar Articles by Friend, C.R.L. Search for Related Content

Jackson, I. (Ed.) The Earth’s Mantle: Composition, Structure and Evolution.

Cambridge University Press, 1998, xxv + 566 pp. Price (hardback) £80.00 (US$130.00). ISBN 0-521-56344-5.

The first 20% of the full text of this article appears below.

This book is dedicated to the late Prof. A.E. Ringwood of the Australian National University and was largely written by colleagues. The subject, the Earth’s mantle, is one that Ringwood had considerable influence on and this compilation of modern work is indeed a fitting tribute. The views expressed are not all accepted mainstream ideas (although the data are mounting to support many of them) which gives the book a touch of controversy, making it an interesting and thought-provoking read. The volume is divided into three parts: three chapters discussing Accretion and Differentiation of the Earth; four chapters dealing with the Dynamics and Evolution of the Earth’s Mantle; and four covering aspects of the Structure and Mechanical Behaviour of the Modern Mantle. However, this book is more than one just about the mantle. In addition it discusses a whole range of different analytical and experimental techniques used to extract or derive information about this rather inaccessible, but extremely important part of the Earth.

The book commences with a discussion of the composition of the silicate Earth which serves as the basis for the chemistry that . . . [Full Text of this Article]