{"product_id":"plate-tectonics-isbn-9780865423138","title":"Plate Tectonics","description":"Palaeomagnetism, plates, hot spots, trenches and ridges are the subject of this unusual book. \u003cb\u003ePlate Tectonics\u003c\/b\u003e is a book of exercises and background information that introduces and demonstrates the basics of the subject. In a lively and lucid manner, it brings together a great deal of material in spherical trigonometry that is necessary to understand plate tectonics and the research literature written about it. It is intended for use in first year graduate courses in geophysics and tectonics, and provides a guide to the quantitative understanding of plate tectonics. Preface; Introduction; Basics of a revolution; Plates in velocity space; Getting round on a sphere; Wrapping plate tectonics around a globe; Plotting planes and vectors in local coordinates; Earthquakes and plates; Finite rotations; Magnetism and isochrons; Paleomagnetic poles; Putting it all together; Absolute Plate Motion; Problems; Suggested Reading; Index; Index of References. \u003cp\u003eAllan Cox is an author and advisor to CEOs and their top teams. He is founder of Allan Cox \u0026amp; Associates, Inc., and has authored 10 books published by Amazon and others including Simon \u0026amp; Schuster, Doubleday, Amacom, St. Martin's Press and Wiley.\u003c\/p\u003e  This book is intended for the reader whose imagination has been captured by reading a popular account about the plate tectonics and would like to know more. It concentrates on the quantitative side of the plate tectonics because most scientifically literate people are already familiar with the quantitative side. The book will enable the reader to answer questions like the following:\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003eHow fast is London moving away from New York?\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHow fast was Los Angeles moving toward San Francisco 50 million years ago?\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHow are the motions of the plates described in mathematical terms?\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhat geophysical observations are used to determine plate motions?\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHow are earthquakes related to plates motions?\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhat drives the plates?\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe guiding philosophy of this book is that in plate tectonics, as in chess, more insight comes from playing the game than from talking or reading about it. This is a hands-on, how-to-do-it book. Most students find that through learning the nuts and bolts of plate tectonics, they gain new insight into its power and limitations.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47989800337637,"sku":"NP9780865423138","price":148.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780865423138.jpg?v=1761785516","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/plate-tectonics-isbn-9780865423138","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}