The Solid Earth
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The Solid Earth

An Introduction to Global Geophysics

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The Solid Earth

An Introduction to Global Geophysics

About this book

The Solid Earth is a general introduction to the study of the physics of the solid Earth, including the workings of both the Earth's surface and its deep interior. The emphasis throughout is on basic physical principles rather than instrumentation or data handling. The second edition of this acclaimed textbook has been revised to bring the content fully up-to-date and to reflect the most recent advances in geophysical research. It is designed for undergraduates on introductory geophysics courses who have a general background in the physical sciences, including introductory calculus. It can also be used as a reference book for graduate students and other researchers in geology and geophysics. Each chapter ends with exercises of various degrees of complexity, for which solutions are available to instructors from www.cambridge.org/9780521893077. The book contains an extensive glossary of geological and physical terms, as well as appendices that develop more advanced mathematical topics.

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Information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2004
Print ISBN
9780521893077
eBook ISBN
9781139632522
Edition
2
Topic
Physical Sciences
Subtopic
Geophysics

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Preface to the first edition
  6. Preface to the second edition
  7. Acknowledgements to the first edition
  8. Acknowledgements to the second edition
  9. Introduction
  10. Tectonics on a sphere: the geometry of plate tectonics
  11. Past plate motions
  12. Seismology Measuring the interior
  13. Gravity
  14. Geochronology
  15. Heat
  16. The deep interior of the Earth
  17. The oceanic lithosphere: ridges, transforms, trenches and oceanic islands
  18. The continental lithosphere
  19. Appendix 1 Scalars, vectors and differential operators
  20. Appendix 2 Theory of elasticity and elastic waves
  21. Appendix 3 Geometry of ray paths and inversion of earthquake body-wave time–distance curves
  22. Appendix 4 The least-squares method
  23. Appendix 5 The error function
  24. Appendix 6 Units and symbols
  25. Appendix 7 Numerical data
  26. Appendix 8 The IASP91 Earth model
  27. Appendix 9 The Preliminary Reference Earth Model, isotropic version – PREM
  28. Appendix 10 The Modified Mercalli Intensity Scale (abridged version)
  29. Glossary
  30. Index