Seismology and plate tectonics /

Seismology and plate tectonics /

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Author / Creator:Gubbins, David
Imprint:Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, c1990.
Description:vii, 339 p. : ill., maps ; 26 cm.
Language:English
Subject:
Seismology
Earthquakes
Plate tectonics
Earthquakes.
Plate tectonics.
Seismology.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1171558
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ISBN:0521371414 (hard)
0521379954 (pbk.)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. 323-327) and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • 1. Introduction
  • 1.1. Seismic waves
  • 1.2. Inference of earth structure
  • 1.3. Earthquakes
  • 1.4. Plate tectonics
  • 1.5. Convection in the earth
  • 2. Mechanics of elastic media
  • 2.1. The description of deformation and strain
  • 2.2. The continuity equation
  • 2.3. Self-gravitation
  • 2.4. The stress tensor
  • 2.5. Angular momentum and symmetry of the stress tensor
  • 2.6. Hydrostatic pressure
  • 2.7. The energy equation
  • 2.8. Heat conduction
  • 2.9. Perfect elasticity
  • 2.10. The elastic moduli
  • 2.11. The Navier equation
  • 2.12. Determination of density within the earth
  • Exercises
  • Summary
  • Further reading
  • 3. Elastic waves in simple media
  • 3.1. The seismometer
  • 3.2. WWSSN recordings
  • 3.3. P and S waves
  • 3.4. Elastodynamic potentials
  • 3.5. Plane waves
  • 3.6. Boundary conditions
  • 3.7. Reflection of plane waves at a free surface
  • 3.8. Reflection and refraction of SH waves
  • 3.9. Rayleigh waves
  • 3.10. Dispersion of Rayleigh waves
  • 3.11. Love waves
  • 3.12. Propagation in inhomogeneous media
  • 3.13. Geometrical optics
  • 3.14. Energy density
  • Practical 1.. Surface wave dispersion
  • Exercises
  • Summary
  • Further reading
  • 4. Earth structure and earthquake location
  • 4.1. Travel time tables
  • 4.2. The ray parameter and seismic rays
  • 4.3. Time-distance curves
  • 4.4. Seismic arrays
  • 4.5. Inversion of travel times for earth structure
  • 4.6. The method of Herglotz and Wiechert
  • 4.7. [tau] - p inversion
  • 4.8. Preliminary location of earthquakes
  • 4.9. Refining the locations
  • 4.10. Procedures of the International Seismological Centre
  • 4.11. Depth phases
  • 4.12. Master event methods
  • Practical 2.. Location of earthquakes from teleseismic records
  • Exercises
  • Summary
  • Further reading
  • 5. Free oscillations
  • 5.1. Spheroidal and torsional modes
  • 5.2. Torsional modes in a uniform sphere
  • 5.3. Overtones
  • 5.4. Fundamental modes
  • 5.5. The earth's normal modes
  • 5.6. Splitting - terrestrial spectroscopy
  • 5.7. Using free oscillations to refine earth models
  • Practical 3.. Long period seismograms and normal mode identification
  • Exercises
  • Summary
  • Further reading
  • 6. The seismic source
  • 6.1. Uniqueness and reciprocal theorems
  • 6.2. The Green's tensor
  • 6.3. Representation theorems
  • 6.4. Mathematical models of the earthquake source
  • 6.5. Equivalent forces
  • 6.6. The moment tensor
  • 6.7. Shear faulting
  • 6.8. Green's tensors for a uniform medium
  • 6.9. P wave radiation from a shear fault
  • 6.10. The fault plane solution
  • 6.11. Shear wave radiation from a fault
  • 6.12. Synthetic seismograms
  • Practical 4.. Making a fault plane solution
  • Exercises
  • Summary
  • Further reading
  • 7. Plate tectonic theory
  • 7.1. Plates
  • 7.2. Poles of relative rotation
  • 7.3. Ridges
  • 7.4. Magnetic anomalies
  • 7.5. Cooling of oceanic plates
  • 7.6. Transform faults
  • 7.7. Trenches
  • 7.8. Triple junctions
  • 7.9. The tectonic evolution of the north-east Pacific
  • 7.10. The Deep Sea Drilling Program
  • Practical 5.. Triple junctions
  • Exercises
  • Summary
  • Further reading
  • Appendix A. Spherical geometry and projections
  • Selected bibliography
  • Beferences
  • Index
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