C. M. R. FowlerCambridge University PressEdition: 2, 12/20/2004EAN 9780521893077, ISBN10: 0521893070Paperback, 728 pages, 25 x 19.5 x 4.5 cmLanguage: EnglishThe 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.PrefaceAcknowledgementsSources1. Introduction2. Tectonics on a spherethe geometry of plate tectonics3. Past plate motions4. Seismologymeasuring the interior5. Gravity6. Geochronology7. Heat8. The deep interior of the Earth9. The oceanic lithosphereridges, transforms, trenches and oceanic islands10. The continental lithosphereA1. Scalars, vector and differential operatorsA2. Theory of elasticity and elastic wavesA3. Geometry of ray paths and inversion of earthquakes body wave time-distance curvesA4. The least-squares methodA5. The error functionA6. Units and symbolsA7. Numerical dataA8. IASP91 Earth modelA9. Preliminary reference Earth model isotropic version - PREMGlossaryIndex.'... the second edition is significantly improved and augmented ... More than ever this book stands out as both an excellent introduction for geophysics undergraduates and a valuable reference text for researchers ...'. Astronomy & Geophysics
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