Customer Reviews

Seems somewhat dated in 2001. Hard to read. - By: , 22 Nov 2001
This is one book givenin a long preparatory reading list provided by the Open University for a course on "The Earth's Interior".
This is the 5th of the list which I have read. It has been the least readable. It muddles cause & effect. It jumps between sections of a subject without good signposting. It states categorically that full information can be found about a subjectin a twenty-year-old paper. It often makes annoying statements that the research results affect geological processes, when it should say that the research affects the interpretation of geological processes.
There are a few topicsin this bookin which the explanations are better thanin other books of similar topics.
It has been a most disappointing read, when I had expected that it would have been much more enlightening & clearer.
It is described as a "second edition", but is not as up-to-date as would be expected for a subject areain which there has been so much recent progress.