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Author: Gerald Schubert (Professor Emeritus, Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences , UCLA, USA)
Publisher: Elsevier Science & Technology
Imprint: Elsevier Science Ltd
Edition: 2nd edition
Dimensions:
Width: 21.60cm
, Height: 24.40cm
, Length: 27.60cm
Weight: 21.930kg
ISBN: 9780444538024
ISBN 10: 044453802
Pages: 5604
Publication Date: 01 May 2015
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Replaced By: 9780443141669
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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...a masterful collection of chapters by first-class authors rewarding the reader with a stroll right up to the dizzying height of current knowledge in literally hundreds of subject areas...a splendid, ambitious encyclopedia of the fundamental geophysical sciences...a welcome addition to any working library in pure or applied geophysics. --The Leading Edge
...a masterful collection of chapters by first-class authors rewarding the reader with a stroll right up to the dizzying height of current knowledge in literally hundreds of subject areas.a splendid, ambitious encyclopedia of the fundamental geophysical sciences...a welcome addition to any working library in pure or applied geophysics. --The Leading Edge
...a masterful collection of chapters by first-class authors rewarding the reader with a stroll right up to the dizzying height of current knowledge in literally hundreds of subject areas.a splendid, ambitious encyclopedia of the fundamental geophysical sciences...a welcome addition to any working library in pure or applied geophysics. --The Leading Edge, Treatise on Geophysics, Second Edition
Author Information
Gerald Schubert is Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the Department of Earth, Planetary and Space Sciences at the University of California, Los Angeles. His research interests encompass the physics of the interiors and atmospheres of the Earth, the Moon, and the other moons and planets of the solar system. He is co-author with Donald Turcotte of Geodynamics (ed. 3, Cambridge University Press, 2014) and with Turcotte and Peter Olson of Mantle Convection in the Earth and Planets (Cambridge University Press, 2001). He is the author of over 540 research papers. He has participated in a number of NASA’s planetary missions, including Apollo, Pioneer Venus, Magellan, and Galileo, and has been editor and editorial board member of many journals, including Icarus, Journal of Geophysical Research, Geophysical Research Letters, and Annual Reviews of Earth and Planetary Sciences. Professor Schubert is a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union and a recipient of the Union’s James B. MacElwane medal and the Harry H. Hess medal. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
