The Innovation Geoscience, Vol. 2, Issue. 1, p. 100047. Isostasy is a simple concept, yet it has long perplexed students of geology and geophysics. This fully updated edition provides the tools to ...

It provides a solid grounding for future study and research covering plate tectonics, stress & strain, elasticity, isostasy & the flexural strength of the lithosphere, gravity, and thermal processes.

The rock cycle. (i) Endogenous processes: theory of plate tectonics and the process of drifting continents, theory of Isostasy by Pratt and A. Holmes. (ii) Landforms – mountains, plateaus and ...

This unique book presents an overview of isostasy, a simple concept of fundamental importance to the Earth Sciences that students have traditionally found difficult to grasp. With this in mind, the ...