Irina Artemieva, I. M. Artemeva

The Lithosphere

An Interdisciplinary Approach

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Multidisciplinary overview of lithospheric structure and evolution, based on a full set of geophysical methods, for researchers and advanced students.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 794
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Februar 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 175mm x 47mm
• Gewicht: 1525g
• ISBN-13: 9780521843966
• ISBN-10: 0521843960
• Artikelnr.: 31192283

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.