Geophysical Continua: Deformation in the Earth's Interior

ISBN-13: 9781108462730 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 444 str.

B. L. N. Kennett; H. -P Bunge

Opis

This graduate textbook in geophysics covers aspects of the Earth's interior often treated separately.

Spis treści

1. Introduction; Part I. Continuum Mechanics in Geophysics: 2. Description of deformation; 3. The stress field concept; 4. Constitutive relations; 5. Linearised elasticity and viscoelasticity; 6. Continua under pressure; 7. Fluid flow; 8. Continuum equations and boundary conditions; Part II. Earth Deformation: 9. From the atomic scale to the continuum; 10. Geological deformation; 11. Seismology and Earth structure; 12. Lithospheric deformation; 13. The influence of rheology - asthenosphere to the deep mantle; 14. Mantle convection; 15. The core and the Earth's dynamo; Appendix. Table of notation; Bibliography; Index.