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1 online resource : illustrations |
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data file rda |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Note |
Desrcription based on print version record. |
| Contents |
Asteroid impact craters ; Biogeochemistry ; Carbon sequestration ; Climate change : causes ; Continental drift ; Creep ; Cross-borehole seismology ; Deep-earth drilling projects ; Deep-focus earthquakes ; Discontinuities ; Earth-moon interactions ; Earthquake distribution ; Earthquake engineering ; Earthquake hazards ; Earthquake locating ; Earthquake magnitudes and intensities ; Earthquake prediction ; Earthquakes ; Earth's age ; Earth's core ; Earth's differentiation ; Earth's interior structure ; Earth's lithosphere ; Earth's magnetic field ; Earth's mantle ; Earth's oldest rocks ; Earth tides ; Elastic waves ; Electron microprobes ; Electron microscopy ; Elemental distribution ; Engineering geophysics ; Environmental chemistry ; Experimental petrology ; Experimental rock deformation ; Faults : normal ; Faults : strike-slip ; Faults : thrust ; Faults : transform ; Fission track dating ; Fluid inclusions ; Freshwater chemistry ; Geobiomagnetism ; Geochemical cycle ; Geodetic remote sensing satellites ; Geodynamics ; The geoid ; Geologic and topographic maps ; Geothermometry and geobarometry ; Glaciation and azolla event ; Gravity anomalies ; Heat sources and heat flow ; Importance of the moon for earth life ; Infrared spectra ; Isotasy ; Isotope Geochemistry ; Isotopic Fractionation ; Jupiter's Effect on Earth ; Lithospheric Plates ; Lunar Origin Theories ; |
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Magnetic Reversals ; Magnetic Stratigraphy ; Mantle Dynamics and Convection ; Mass Extinction Theories ; Mass Spectrometry ; Metamorphism and Crustal Thickening ; Milankovitch Hypothesis ; Mountain Building ; Neutron Activation Analysis ; Notable Earthquakes ; Nucleosynthesis ; Ocean Drilling Program ; Ocean-Floor Drilling Program ; Oxygen, Hydrogen, and Carbon Ratios ; Petrographic Microscopes ; Phase Changes ; Phase Equilibria ; Plate Motions ; Plate Tectonics ; Plumes and Megaplumes ; Polar Wander ; Potassium-Argon Dating ; Radioactive Decay ; Radiocarbon Dating ; Rare Earth Hypothesis ; Relative Dating of Strata ; Remote-Sensing Satellites ; Rock Magnetism ; Rubidium-Strontium Dating ; Samarium-Neodymium Dating ; San Andreas Fault ; Seismic Observatories ; Seismic Reflection Profiling ; Seismic Tomography ; Seismic Wave Studies ; Seismometers ; Slow Earthquakes ; Soil Liquefaction ; Solar Wind Interactions ; Stress and Strain ; Subduction and Orogeny ; Tectonic Plate Margins ; Tsunamis and Earthquakes ; Uranium-Thorium-Lead Dating ; Volcanism ; Water-Rock Interactions ; X-ray Fluorescence ; X-ray Powder Diffraction ; Bibilography ; Common Earth Minerals ; Earth Facts ; Historical Timeline of Geophysical History ; Subject Index. |
| Summary |
A "detailed look at the dynamics of the earth's mass and how its chemistry produces change."-Publisher website. |
| Subject |
Earth sciences.
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SCIENCE -- Earth Sciences -- General.
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SCIENCE -- Physics -- Geophysics.
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Earth sciences. (OCoLC)fst00900729
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| Added Author |
Spradley, Joseph L.
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| Added Title |
Physics and chemistry of the earth |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Earth science. Physics and chemistry of the earth. Ipswich, Mass. : Salem Press, ©2012 9781587659898 (DLC) 2012004322 (OCoLC)777601652 |
| ISBN |
9781587659768 (electronic bk.) |
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158765976X (electronic bk.) |
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