Irina Artemieva (University of Copenhagen)

Lithosphere

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Presents a coherent synthesis of lithosphere studies, based on a full set of geophysical methods and complemented by petrologic and laboratory data on rock properties. This is a multidisciplinary resource for researchers and advanced students in geophysics, geodynamics, tectonics, petrology, and geochemistry, and for petroleum and mining industry professionals.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 794
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Oktober 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 189mm x 42mm
• Gewicht: 1584g
• ISBN-13: 9781108448468
• ISBN-10: 1108448461
• Artikelnr.: 49563271

Autorenporträt

Irina Artemieva is an Associate Professor at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. She was awarded an M.S. in Physics from Lomonosov Moscow State University, a Ph.D. in Geophysics from the Institute of Physics of the Earth, Moscow and a Dr Science (Dr habil.) degree from the University of Copenhagen. Professor Artemieva has worked as a researcher at the Russian/USSR Academy of Sciences, Moscow, at the Universities of Uppsala (Sweden) and Strasbourg (France), and at the United States Geological Survey in California. She was Science Co-ordinator of the European Science Foundation/International Lithosphere Program EUROPROBE study 1999-2001. She is also a member of the Natural Sciences Research Councils in Ireland and Sweden, and the Academia Europaea, and is a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society, London.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword
Preface
1. What is the lithosphere?
2. Age of the lithosphere
3. Seismic structure of the lithosphere
4. Thermal regime of the lithosphere from heat flow data
5. Thermal state of the lithosphere from non-thermal data
6. CBL and lithospheric density from petrologic and geophysical data
7. Electrical structure of the lithosphere
8. Flexure and rheology
9. Evolution of the lithosphere
10. Summary of lithospheric properties
References
Index.