The solid earth: an introduction to global geophysics/
C.M.R. Fowler.
- 2nd ed.
- Cambridge, UK; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005.
- xviii, 685 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Introduction 2. Tectonics on a sphere: the geometry of plate tectonics 3. Past plate motions 4. Seismology: measuring the interior 5. Gravity 6. Geochronology 7. Heat 8. The deep interior of the Earth 9. The oceanic lithosphere: ridges, transforms, trenches and oceanic islands 10. The continental lithosphere A1. Scalars, vector and differential opertors A2. Theory of elasticity and elastic waves A3. Geometry of ray paths and inversion of earthquakes body wave time-distance curves A4. The least-squares method A5. The error function A6. Units and symbols A7. Numerical data A8. IASP91 Earth model A9. Preliminary reference Earth model isotropic version - PREM