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Author Smylie, D. E.

Title Earth dynamics [electronic resource] : deformations and oscillations of the rotating Earth / D.E. Smylie.

Imprint Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013.

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Description xii, 543 p.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction and theoretical background; 2. Time sequence and spectral analysis; 3. Earth deformations; 4. Earth's rotation: observations and theory; 5. Earth's figure and gravitation; 6. Rotating fluids and the outer core; 7. The subseismic equation and boundary conditions; 8. Variational methods and core modes; 9. Static deformations and dislocation theory; Appendix A. Elementary results from vector analysis; Appendix B. Properties of Legendre functions; Appendix C. Numerical Earth models; References; Fortran index; Subject index.
Summary "The Earth is a dynamic system. Internal processes, together with external gravitational forces of the Sun, Moon and planets, displace the Earth's mass, impacting on its shape, rotation and gravitational field. Doug Smylie provides a rigorous overview of the dynamical behaviour of the solid Earth, explaining the theory and presenting methods for numerical implementation. Topics include advanced digital analysis, earthquake displacement fields, Free Core Nutations observed by the Very Long Baseline Interferometric technique, translational modes of the solid inner core observed by the superconducting gravimeters, and dynamics of the outer fluid core. This book is supported by freeware computer code, available online for students to implement the theory. Online materials also include a suite of graphics generated from the numerical analysis, combined with 100 graphic examples in the book to make this an ideal tool for researchers and graduate students in the fields of geodesy, seismology and solid earth geophysics"-- Provided by publisher.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Geodynamics.
Earth -- Rotation.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780521875035 (hardback)
9781107306189 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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