Geodynamics of the lithosphere. An introduction / Геодинамика литосферы. Введение

This book is a reflection of my enthusiasm for the quantitative treatment of geological problems. However, I am originally a field geologist and over the years I had to rely on the help of many who are more numerically literate than myself to teach me the wonders of quantitative geodynamics. Many of those are acknowledged in the first edition of this book. Of those who helped me with this 2nd edition, my special thanks go to S Hergarten and J Robl. Stefan’s background in mathematics has been a continuous source of enlightenment for me and his patience to teach me over many lunches has helped to make the physics in this edition much more soundly founded -certainly in my mind and hopefully visibly on these pages. Jorg Robl helped me with the handling of the digital data sets that form the basis for many of the figures. As a former student of mine, his art in handling GMT, awk and bash scripts has now long outgrown my own expertise. Many other colleagues and friends have helped to improve this 2nd edition with help that ranged from a brief email to answer a specific question to providing photos or proof reading entire sections. In particular I would like to thank: JP Avouac, M Bevis, M Brown, A Camacho, D Coblentz, L Estey, T Gerya, W Gosnold, В Grasemann, E Hartz, В Heberer, G Houseman, К Hudnut, N Mancktelow, S Matthai, F Neubauer, H Pollack, R Powell, G Schubert, В Tucholke and S Willett. It was a joy to find you all so open and helpful when I asked for assistance. <...>