Introduction
Plate tectonics and tectonophysics are disciplines of Earth Science which describe the motions of the Earth's crust and the associated driving mechanisms of such motion. Plate Tectonic Theory divides the surface of the planet Earth into large continental masses which are "floating" atop the Earth's mantle. Plate Tectonic theory depends considerably on affiliated scientific disciplines. These include: seismology, volcanology, rheology, geology, paleomagnetism and geodynamics.
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- Cox, A. & R. B. Hart, Plate Tectonics - How it Works, Blackwell, Palo Alto, 1986.
- Fowler, C. M. R., The Solid Earth: An Introduction to Global Geophysics, Cambridge U. Press, Cambridge, 1990.
- Gubbin, D., Seismology and Plate Tectonics, Cambridge U. Press, Cambridge, 1990.
- Jeffereys, H. The Earth, 6th ed., Cambridge U. Press, Cambridge, 1980.
- LePichon, X., Plate Tectonics, Elsevier, Amsterdam, 1973.
- McElhinney, M. W., Paleomagnetism and Plate Tectonics, Cambridge U. Press, Cambridge, 1973.
- Ortel, G., Stress and Deformation, Oxford U. Press, Oxford, 1996.
- Shea, J. H. (ed.), Plate Tectonics, Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York, 1985.
- Stacey, F. D., Physics of the Earth, 3rd ed., J. Wiley & Son, New York, 1978 (more recent editions have been published).
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