Our Concept of the Earth What We Know About Our Planet and How It Was Discovered /
With its new, unique look at the physics of the earth and at how this field got to where it is today, this is not a conventional textbook, but could easily be used as one. Designed to be understood by readers with no background in the earth sciences and only little previous knowledge of math and phy...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Lenguaje: | inglés |
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Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Springer,
2024.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. 2024. |
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| Acceso en línea: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-71579-2 |
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- The mass of the earth
- The structure of the earth: rotation, precession, cosmogony
- The forces that shape the earth: Neptunism vs. Plutonism
- The age of the earth
- The forces that shape the earth: shrinking, isostasy, drift
- The structure of the earth: seismology
- The forces that shape the earth: convection and plates
- Our concept of the earth
- Exercises: Further Food for Thought.