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Global Tectonics | 
| Authors: Philip Kearey, Frederick Vine
Publisher: WileyBlackwell
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 36128
Media: Paperback
Edition: 2nd Edition
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 333
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.8
Dimensions (in): 9.6 x 7.4 x 0.3
ISBN: 0865429243
Dewey Decimal Number: 551.136
EAN: 9780865429246
ASIN: 0865429243
Publication Date: July 2, 1996
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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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