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New Theory of the Earth
New Theory of the Earth is an interdisciplinary advanced textbook on all aspects of the interior of the Earth
and its origin, composition, and evolution: geophysics, geochemistry, dynamics, convection, mineralogy,
volcanism, energetics and thermal history. This is the only book on the whole landscape of deep Earth
processes that ties together all the strands of the subdisciplines.
This book is plete update of Anderson’s Theory of the Earth (1989). It includes dozens of new
figures and tables. A novel referencing system using Googlets is introduced that allows immediate access
to supplementary material via the . There are new sections on tomography, anization, and
new approaches to plate tectonics. The paradigm/paradox approach to developing new theories is
developed, and controversies and contradictions have been brought more center-stage.
As with the Theory of the Earth, this new edition will prove to be a stimulating textbook for advanced
courses in geophysics, geochemistry, and ary science, and a supplementary textbook on a wide
range of other advanced Earth science courses. It will also be an essential reference and resource for all
researchers in the solid Earth sciences.
Don L. Anderson is Professor (Emeritus) of Geophysics in the Division of Geological and ary Sciences
at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). He received his . and . (Hon) in Geophysics from
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), his . and . in Mathematics and Geophysics from Caltech,
and Doctors Honoris Causa from the Sorbonne, University of Paris. He was Director of the Seismological
Laboratory of the California Institute of Technology from 1967--1989. He is a Fellow of the American
Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Sciences and the American Philosophical Society.
He received the Emil Wiechert Medal of