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Science 4 September 1998:
Vol. 281. no. 5382, pp. 1462 - 1463
DOI: 10.1126/science.281.5382.1462
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GEOSCIENCES:
The World Between Crust and Core

A review by David J. Stevenson

The Earth's Mantle Composition, Structure, and Evolution
Ian Jackson, Ed.
Cambridge University Press, New York, 1998. 592 pp. $130, £80. ISBN 0-521-56344-5.

The Earth's Mantle is a comprehensive overview by members of the Canberra school that considers both matters of consensus and continuing controversy. It provides perspectives from cosmochemistry, isotope geochemistry, fluid dynamics, petrology, seismology, geodynamics, and mineral and rock physics, and is dedicated to the memory of Ted Ringwood.
The author is in the Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, MC 150-21, California Institute of Technology, 1200 East California Boulevard, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA. E-mail: djs{at}gps.caltech.edu

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