Binding: Paperback
Description: ** Association of American Publishers (AAP) Prose Award Finalist in Earth Science 2024** A Journey Through Tides is a fully comprehensive text on the history of tides. It brings together geology and oceanography and discusses in detail new ideas that have emerged about how tectonics and tides interact. In addition the book provides an overview of Earth's history from the perspective of tidal changes while also highlighting other fascinating phenomena (e. g. solid Earth tides and links between tides and earthquakes). Sections cover an introduction to tides for oceanography students and scientists from other disciplines cover the Earth's deep time processes and include several case studies of specific topics/processes that apply to a earth science disciplines. There are many other processes that drive and modify the tides hence this book also describes why there is a tide how it has changed since Earth's early days and what consequences the tides and changes in the tides have on other parts of the Earth system.
Title: A Journey Through Tides
Brand: Elsevier - Health Sciences Division
Barcode: 9780323908511
Pages: 466 Pages, 100 Illustrations (80 In Full Color); Illustrations, Unspecified
Publication Date: 9/15/2022
Category: Oceanography (Seas)