Whole Earth Geophysics illustrates how different types of geophysical observations provide constraints on Earth’s gross structure and composition. It introduces geology students with a basic grounding in math and physics to the fundamentals of various geophysical techniques, but does not stop there. Specific observations illustrate how each technique constrains certain aspects of the plate tectonic framework that is fundamental to the study of Earth science today.
This book is designed for a Solid Earth Geophysics course at the advanced undergraduate or beginning graduate level. While the primary objective is to illustrate the utility of geophysical observations to geology students, geophysics students may benefit from the book by seeing the basics of their discipline in the context of geology. <...>

Compositional data arise naturally in several branches of science, including geology. In geochemistry, for example, these constrained data seem to occur typically, when one normalizes raw data or when one obtains the output from a constrained estimation procedure, such as parts per one, percentages, ppm, ppb, molar concentRations, etc.

Although mining is a conservative industry, economic drivers continue to encourage innovation and technological change. In mineral processing, equipment vendors, researchers and the operations themselves work to develop technologies that are more efficient, of lower cost and more sustainable than their predecessors. The results are apparent in new equipment and new operating practice. Any textbook needs to reflect these changes, and Barry Wills' classic is no exception.

In 1996, the IAEA published the Guidebook to Accompany IAEA Map: World distribution of Uranium Deposits (the ‘Guidebook’). This publication, which was the culmination of a process that began in 1990, introduced a descriptive deposit classification that expanded upon the classification used in the OECD/NEA-IAEA Red Book. Experts from six countries and from the IAEA collaborated on establishing the deposit classification. They also contributed information on a total of 582 deposits worldwide, and provided summary information on these deposits that became part of the Guidebook including their location, status (operating, dormant, depleted, etc.), resources (within a specific resource range — e.g. 1 500 to 5 000 t U), average grade (within a grade range — e.g. 0.03–0.10% U), geologic age, host rocks and tectonic setting. <...>