| Global Tectonics |  | Author: Kearey Publisher: WileyBlackwell Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating: 1 reviews Sales Rank: 605844
Media: Paperback Pages: 320 Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.8 Dimensions (in): 9.8 x 7.5 x 0.8
ISBN: 0632024240 EAN: 9780632024247 ASIN: 0632024240
Publication Date: January 12, 1993
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Seems somewhat dated in 2001. Hard to read. November 22, 2001 34 out of 34 found this review helpful
This is one book given in a long preparatory reading list provided by the Open University for a course on "The Earth's Interior". This is the 5th of the list which I have read. It has been the least readable. It muddles cause and effect. It jumps between sections of a subject without good signposting. It states categorically that full information can be found about a subject in a twenty-year-old paper. It often makes annoying statements that the research results affect geological processes, when it should say that the research affects the interpretation of geological processes. There are a few topics in this book in which the explanations are better than in other books of similar topics. It has been a most disappointing read, when I had expected that it would have been much more enlightening and clearer. It is described as a "second edition", but is not as up-to-date as would be expected for a subject area in which there has been so much recent progress.
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