03125nam a22005295i 4500 978-3-031-62694-4 DE-He213 20251030112609.0 cr nn 008mamaa 240702s2024 sz | s |||| 0|eng d 9783031626944 978-3-031-62694-4 10.1007/978-3-031-62694-4 doi QC801-809 PHVG bicssc SCI032000 bisacsh PHVG thema Whitehead, John A. author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 79879 Energy Flow and Earth [electronic resource] : How Earth Works / by John A. Whitehead. 1st ed. 2024. Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Springer, 2024. XI, 149 p. 82 illus., 44 illus. in color. online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda SpringerBriefs in Earth System Sciences, 2191-5903 1. An Introduction to Energy Flow and the Discovery of the Great Plates -- 2. Spontaneous Production of Flow Patterns—Cellular Convection -- 3. Energetics of Mantle Convection -- 4. Energy Flow and Magma Generation -- 5. Power and the Building of Continents, Mountains, and the Ocean Basins. This book shows how energy flow plays a major role in: plate tectonics; the formation of continents; ocean basins; and building mountains. Energy flow also produces and drives volcanos, Earth’s magnetic field, the wind belts, our weather, and ocean circulation. The studies of convection cells, eddies, and energy flow all contribute to our understanding of how they are all formed and driven. Insight accumulated during 55 years of research is presented using simple fluid mechanics. The mathematics is algebra. No calculus or advanced geometry is used, so the text is readable to a broad audience. Some laboratory and computer studies are described that help to visualize the applications. This book should appeal to anyone interested in how energy flow is responsible for much of the earth’s larger “workings”. In addition to the general public, these include people who work in applied mathematics, fluid mechanics, earth science, and climate. Geophysics. 69226 Geodynamics. 72196 Geology. 65838 Geophysics. 69226 Geodynamics. 72196 Geology. 65838 SpringerLink (Online service) Springer Nature eBook Printed edition: 9783031626937 Printed edition: 9783031626951 SpringerBriefs in Earth System Sciences, 2191-5903 73057 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-62694-4 ZDB-2-EES ZDB-2-SXEE 61270 61270