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  title info:
    title: Geodynamics of the Lithosphere
    sub title: An Introduction
  name:
    name part: Stüwe, Kurt.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2007
    edition: Second Edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XIV, 493 p. online resource.
  abstract: The large scale structure of the earth is caused by geodynamic processes which are explained using energetic, kinematic and dynamic descriptions. While "geodynamic processes" are understood to include a large variety of processes and the term is used quite loosely, the methods of their description involve well defined fields. Energetic descriptions are involved with distribu­ tion of energy in our planet, typically expressed in terms of heat and tempera­ ture. Kinematic descriptions describe movements using velocities, strains and strain rates. Dynamic descriptions indicate how stresses and forces behave. In the field, we document only the consequences of geological processes. The underlying causes are much harder to constrain directly. Nevertheless, if we want to explain the tectonic evolution of our planet, we need to interpret these causes or: "driving forces" . For this, we need to find a dynamic description of geological processes that is consistent with our observations. Our descriptions relate causes and consequences - tectonic processes with field observations. In many cases, we will use equations as a concise form to describe processes and observations in nature. As we will be dealing mostly with large scale tectonic questions, the observations that we shall use are also on a large scale. For example, we shall use observations on the elevation (Fig. 1. 1) and heat flow of mountain ranges, the thickness of continents and the water depth of the oceans.
  table of contents: Plate Tectonics -- Energetics: Heat and Temperature -- Kinematics: Morphology and Deformation -- Mechanics: Force and Rheology -- Dynamic Processes -- Metamorphic Processes.
  note: by Kurt Stüwe.
  subject:
    topic: Earth sciences
  subject:
    topic: Geology
  subject:
    topic: Geophysics
  subject:
    topic: Computer mathematics
  subject:
    topic: Thermodynamics
  subject:
    topic: Earth Sciences
  subject:
    topic: Geology
  subject:
    topic: Geophysics/Geodesy
  subject:
    topic: Thermodynamics
  subject:
    topic: Computational Mathematics and Numerical Analysis
  classification: QE1-996.5
  classification: 551
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  identifier: 9783540712374
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-71237-4
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