Advances in earth science : from earthquakes to global warming /
editors, P.R. Sammonds, J.M.T. Thompson
- London : Imperial College Press, c2007
- xxvii, 314 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
- Royal Society series on advances in science ; v. 2 .
... articles originating from invited papers published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, [series A]."-- P. [4] of cover.
Includes bibliographical references and index
Preface. - Profiles of the editors and authors. - Introduction / Peter Sammonds. Sect 1. Environmental change. - The price of climate change / David S. Rea. - Carbon in the atmosphere and terrestrial biosphere in the early anthropocene / Yadvinder Malhi. - Dust in the earth system : the biogeochemical linking of land, air, and sea / Andy Ridgwell, Karen E. Kohfeld. - The late permian mass extinction event and recovery : biological catastrophe in a greenhouse world / Richard J. Twitchett. - Sect. 2. Dynamics of the earth. - Space-plasma imaging - past, present, and future / Cathryn N. Mitchell. - Fault structure, stress, friction and rupture dynamics of earthquakes / Eiichi Fukayama. - Some remarks on the time scales of magmatic processes occurring beneath island arc volcanoes / Simon P. Turne. - The break-up of continents and the generation of ocean basins / T. A. Minshull. - Properties and evolution of the earth's core and geodynamo / F. Nimmo, D. Alfe. - Sect 3. Applied earth science. - Giant catastrophic landslides / Christopher R. J. Kilburn. - Remote monitoring of the earthquake cycle using satellite radar interferometry / Tim J. Wright. - Human influence on the global geochemical cycle of lead / Dominik J. Weiss, Malin E. Kylander, Matthew K. Reuer. - Natural and artificial platinum and palladium occurrences world-wide / Hazel M. Prichard. - Data assimilation and objectively optimised earth observation / David J. Lary, Anuradha Koratkar. - Afterword. - Index.
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Earth sciences Global environmental change Geodynamics