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9780444534576: Core Dynamics: Treatise on Geophysics (8)
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ISBN 10: 0444534571 ISBN 13: 9780444534576
Casa editrice: Elsevier Science Ltd, 2007

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Treaties on Geophysics: Core Dynamics, Volume 8, provides a comprehensive review of the current state of understanding of core dynamics. The book begins by analyzing a subject of long-standing and on-going controversy: the gross energetics of the core. It then explains the important elements of dynamo theory; actual fluid motions in the core; the basic physical principles involved in thermochemical convection in the core and the basic equations governing the convection; and turbulence and the small-scale dynamics of the core. This is followed by discussions of the state of knowledge on rotation-induced core flows; the use of first-principles numerical models of self-sustaining fluid dynamos; and the behavior of polarity reversals in numerical dynamo models. The remaining chapters cover the various roles the inner core plays in core dynamics and the geodynamo; experiments that have shaped knowledge about the flows in the core that produce the geodynamo and govern its evolution; and ways the mantle can affect core dynamics, and corresponding ways the core can affect the mantle.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Peter L. Olson is an adjunct professor in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at the University of New Mexico. He earned a BA from the University of Colorado and a PhD from the University of California Berkeley. His research focuses on the dynamics of Earth and other planets. He co-authored a book on convection in planetary mantles and served on editorial boards of numerous scientific journals. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the US National Academy of Sciences, and received the Petrus Peregrinus Medal from the European Geosciences Union and the Inge Lehmann Medal from the American Geophysical Union.

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Editore
Elsevier Science Ltd
Data di pubblicazione
2007
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0444534571
ISBN 13 
9780444534576
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero edizione
1
Numero di pagine
358
Redattore
Schubert Gerald
Contatto del produttore
non disponibile
Persona responsabile
LSWR Group
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