Dynamics of Plate Tectonics and Mantle Convection
Duarte, Joao C. (Associate Professor, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal, Researcher, Instituto Dom Luiz, Lisbon, Portugal)
Dynamics of Plate Tectonics and Mantle Convection gathers state-of-the-art and complementary views on plate tectonics in one single volume, written by the top specialists in the field. Plate tectonics is the unifying theory of solid Earth sciences. It describes that the surface of our planet is fragmented in several rigid lithospheric plates that move in relation to each other over the less viscous asthenospheric mantle. Numerous fundamental g...