The core of the book provides a deterministic, physics-based exposition of solid-earth processes at a mathematical level accessible to most students. Tackley, ETH Zentrum, Switzerland 'For the past thirty years, Geodynamics has served as the primary textbook in the field. The new chapters on numerics and computation are a great addition that bring it firmly into the modern computational era.

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