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目次

Preface; Part I. Planetary Perspective: 1. Origin and early history; 2.Comparative planetology; 3. Building blocks of planets; Part II. Earth: TheDynamic Planet: 4. Outer shells of Earth; 5. Eclogite engine; 6. Shape of theEarth; 7. Convection and complexity; Part III. Radial and Lateral Structure:8. Let's take it from the top; crust and upper mantle; 9. A laminated lumpymantle; 10. The bowels of the Earth; 11. Geotomography; heterogeneity of themantle; Part IV. Sampling Earth: 12. Statistics and other damned lies; 13.Making an Earth; 14. Magmas - windows into the mantle; 15. The hard rockcafe; 16. Noble gas isotopes; 17. The other isotopes; Part V. MineralPhysics: 18. Elasticity and solid state geophysics; 19. Dissipation; 20.Anisotropy; fabric of the mantle; 21. Nonelastic and transport properties;22. Squeezing; phase changes and mantle mineralogy; Part VI. Origin andEvolution of Layers and Blobs: 23. The upper mantle; 24. The nature and causeof mantle heterogeneity; 25. Crystallization of the mantle; Part VII.Energetics: 26. Terrestrial heat flow; 27. Thermal history; Appendix; Index.