Background Reading

These reading materials may be helpful to clarify exercises or for background. Note that these are all textbooks except for the paper by Ricard which is a comprehensive review of mantle convection theory which covers many derivations and scaling arguments.

• (Davies 2009) - Dynamic Earth, Cambridge University Press

• (Fowler 2004) - The solid earth : an introduction to global geophysics, Cambridge University Press

• (Gubbins 1990) - Seismology and plate tectonics, Cambridge University Press (QE534.2.G83 1990)

• (Poirier 2000) - Introduction to the Physics of the Earth’s Interior, Cambridge University Press

• (Ricard 2015) - Physics of Mantle Convection. In Treatise on Geophysics (pp. 23–71). Elsevier.

• (Stacey 2008) - Physics of the Earth, 3rd Edn., Brookfield Press

• (Turcotte and Schubert 2014) - Geodynamics 3rd Edn, Cambridge University Press,

Lecture notes

These lecture notes are a selective compilation of many of the results in the reference texts as well as a short introduction to computational fluid dynamics.

References

Davies, Geoffrey F. 2009. Dynamic Earth. Cambridge, GBR: Cambridge University Press.

Fowler, C. M. R. 2004. The Solid Earth: An Introduction to Global Geophysics. 2nd ed. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511819643.

Gubbins, David. 1990. Seismology and Plate Tectonics. Cambridge [England] ; New York: Cambridge University Press.

Poirier, Jean-Paul. 2000. Introduction to the Physics of the Earth’s Interior. 2nd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Ricard, Y. 2015. “Physics of Mantle Convection.” In Treatise on Geophysics, 23–71. Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-444-53802-4.00127-5.

Stacey, F. D. 2008. Physics of the Earth. 4th ed. Cambridge ; New York: Cambridge University Press.

Turcotte, Donald Lawson, and Gerald Schubert. 2014. Geodynamics. Third edition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.