Seismology and structure of the Earth
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Seismology and structure of the Earth
（Treatise on geophysics / editor-in-chief, Gerald Schubert, v. 1）
Elsevier, 2009
- : pbk
Available at 13 libraries
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Includes bibliographical references
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Treatise on Geophysics: Seismology and Structure of the Earth, Volume 1, provides a comprehensive review of the state of knowledge on the Earths structure and earthquakes. It addresses various aspects of structural seismology and its applications to other fields of Earth sciences. The book is organized into four parts. The first part principally covers theoretical developments and seismic data analysis techniques from the end of the nineteenth century until the present, with the main emphasis on the development of instrumentation and its deployment. The second part reviews the status of knowledge on the structure of the Earths shallow layers, starting with a global review of the Earth's crustal structure. The third part focuses on the Earth's deep structure, divided into its main units: the upper mantle, the transition zone and upper-mantle discontinuities, the D region at the base of the mantle, and the Earth's core. The fourth part comprises two chapters which discuss constraints on Earth structure from fields other than seismology: mineral physics and geodynamics.
Table of Contents
1. Overview. 2. Theory and Observations - Earth's Free Oscillations. 3. Theory and Observations - Normal Modes and Surface Wave Measurements. 4. Theory and Observations - Body Waves: Ray Methods and Finite Frequency Effects. 5. Theory and Observations - Forward Modelling and Synthetic Body Wave Seismograms. 6. Theory and Observations - Forward Modelling and Synthetic Seismograms: 3-D Numerical Methods. 7. Theory and Observations - Teleseismic Body-Wave Scattering and Receiver-Side structure. 8. Crust and Lithospheric Structure - Active Source Studies of Crust and Lithospheric Structure. 9. Theory and Observations - Wave Propagation in Anisotropic Media. 10. Theory and Observations - Seismic Tomography and Inverse Methods. 11. Crust and Lithosperic Structure - Global Crustal Structure. 12. Crust and Lithosperic Structure - Seismic Structure of Mid-Ocean Ridges. 13. Crust and Lithosperic Structure - Hot spots and Hot-Spot Wells. 14. Crust and Lithosperic Structure - Natural Source Portable Array Studies of Continental Lithosphere. 15. Crust and Lithosperic Structure - Long Range Controlled Source Seismic Experiments in Europe. 16. Deep Earth Structure - Upper Mantle Structure: Global isotropic and anisotropic elastic tomography. 17. Deep Earth Structure - Transition Zone and Mantle Discontinuities. 18.Deep Earth Structure - Lower Mantle and D". 19. Deep Earth Structure- The Earth's Cores. 20. Deep Earth Structure - Seismic Scattering in the Deep Earth. 21. Constraints on Seismic Models from other disciplines - Constraints from Mineral Physics on Seismological Models. 22. Constraints on Seismic Models from other disciplines - Implications for Mantle Dynamics and Composition.
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