The solid earth: an introduction to global geophysics/ C.M.R. Fowler
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TextPublication details: Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005Edition: 2nd edDescription: xviii, 685pISBN: 9780521893077Subject(s): Geophysics -- Earth (Planet)DDC classification: 550
Contents:
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
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