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| Preface to the first edition | |
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| Preface to the second edition | |
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| Acknowledgements to the first edition | |
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| Acknowledgements to the second edition | |
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| Introduction | |
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| References and bibliography | |
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| Tectonics on a sphere: the geometry of plate tectonics | |
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| Plate tectonics | |
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| A flat Earth | |
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| Rotation vectors and rotation poles | |
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| Present-day plate motions | |
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| Plate boundaries can change with time | |
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| Triple junctions | |
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| Absolute plate motions | |
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| Problems | |
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| References and bibliography | |
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| Past plate motions | |
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| The role of the Earth's magnetic field | |
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| Dating the oceanic plates | |
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| Reconstruction of past plate motions | |
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| Problems | |
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| References and bibliography | |
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| Seismology Measuring the interior | |
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| Waves through the Earth | |
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| Earthquake seismology | |
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| Refraction seismology | |
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| Reflection seismology | |
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| Problems | |
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| References and bibliography | |
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| Gravity | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Gravitational potential and acceleration | |
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| Gravity of the Earth | |
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| The shape of the Earth | |
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| Gravity anomalies | |
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| Observed gravity and geoid anomalies | |
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| Flexure of the lithosphere and the viscosity of the mantle | |
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| Problems | |
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| References and bibliography | |
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| Geochronology | |
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| Introduction | |
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| General theory | |
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| Rubidium-strontium | |
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| Uranium-lead | |
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| Thorium-lead | |
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| Potassium-argon | |
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| Argon-argon | |
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| Samarium-neodymium | |
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| Fission-track dating | |
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| The age of the Earth | |
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| Problems | |
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| References and bibliography | |
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| Heat | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Conductive heat flow | |
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| Calculation of simple geotherms | |
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| Worldwide heat flow: total heat loss from the Earth | |
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| Oceanic heat flow | |
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| Continental heat flow | |
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| The adiabat and melting in the mantle | |
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| Metamorphism: geotherms in the continental crust | |
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| Problems | |
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| References and bibliography | |
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| The deep interior of the Earth | |
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| The internal structure of the Earth | |
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| Convection in the mantle | |
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| The core | |
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| References and bibliography | |
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| The oceanic lithosphere: ridges, transforms, trenches and oceanic islands | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The oceanic lithosphere | |
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| The deep structure of mid-ocean ridges | |
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| The shallow structure of mid-ocean ridges | |
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| Transform faults | |
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| Subduction zones | |
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| Oceanic islands | |
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| Problems | |
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| References and bibliography | |
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| The continental lithosphere | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The growth of continents | |
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| Sedimentary basins and continental margins | |
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| Continental rift zones | |
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| The Archaean | |
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| Problems | |
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| References and bibliography | |
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| Scalars, vectors and differential operators | |
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| Theory of elasticity and elastic waves | |
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| Geometry of ray paths and inversion of earthquake body-wave time-distance curves | |
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| The least-squares method | |
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| The error function | |
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| Units and symbols | |
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| Numerical data | |
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| The IASP91 Earth model | |
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| The Preliminary Reference Earth Model, isotropic version - PREM | |