William Lowrie (Eidgenoessische Technische Hochschule Zurich), Andreas Fichtner (Eidgenoessische Technische Hochschule Zurich)

Fundamentals of Geophysics

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This enduringly popular undergraduate textbook has been thoroughly reworked and updated to include new data acquisition technologies, modelling tools and recent research developments. This third edition also features a suite of teaching resources including new computational exercises in the form of Jupyter notebooks.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• 3 Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 430
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Januar 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 286mm x 221mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 1418g
• ISBN-13: 9781108492737
• ISBN-10: 1108492738
• Artikelnr.: 57167420

Autorenporträt

William Lowrie is Professor Emeritus of Geophysics at the Institute of Geophysics at Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich, Switzerland, where he taught geophysics and carried out research in rock magnetism and paleomagnetism. He graduated from the University of Edinburgh in 1960 with first class honors in physics, before completing a masters degree in geophysics at the University of Toronto and a doctorate at the University of Pittsburgh. He has been President of the European Union of Geosciences (1987-9) and Section President and Council member of the American Geophysical Union (2000-2). He is a Fellow of AGU and a Member of the Academia Europaea.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. The Solar System
2. Plate tectonics
3. Gravity and the figure of the Earth
4. Gravity surveying
5. Rheology of the Earth
6. Seismology
7. Earthquakes and the Earth's internal structure
8. Geochronology
9. The Earth's heat
10. Geoelectricity
11. The Earth's magnetic field
12. Paleomagnetism
Appendices
Bibliography
Index.