Anderson D.L. Theory of the Earth

Blackwell, 1989. — 379 p. — ISBN 0865423350.This book is assembled the bits and pieces from a variety of disciplines which are relevant to an understanding of the Earth. Rocks and magmas are our most direct source of information about the interior, but they are biased toward the properties of the crust and shallow mantle. Seismology is our best source of information about the deep interior; however, the interpretation of seismic data for purposes other than purely structural requires input from solid-state physics and experimental petrology. Although this is not a book about seismology, it uses
seismology in a variety of ways.