TY - BOOK AU - Fowler, C.M.R. TI - The solid earth: an introduction to global geophysics SN - 9780521893077 U1 - 550 PY - 2005/// CY - Cambridge PB - Cambridge University Press KW - Geophysics KW - Earth (Planet) N1 - Past plate motions -- Seismology measuring the interior -- Gravity --Geochronology -- Heat -- The deep interior of the Earth -- The oceanic lithosphere : ridges, transforms, trenches and oceanic islands -- The continental lithosphere -- Appendix 1. Scalars, vectors and differential operators -- Appendix 2. Theory of elasticity and elastic waves -- Appendix 3. Geometry of ray paths and inversion of earthquake body-wave time-distance curves -- Appendix 4. The least-squares method -- Appendix 5. The error function -- Appendix 6. Units and symbols -- Appendix 7. Numerical data -- Appendix 8. The IASP91 Earth model -- Appendix 9. The preliminary reference Earth model, isotropic version - Appendix 10. The modified Mercalli intensity scale (abridged version) ER -